Creating an if statement

**brianjones00** · 03-30-2013, 03:18 PM

How do I go about doing the following:
If cell "A" contains any number value than cell "B" will simply just show an addition sign (+)? I don't want it to do any calculations. Thank you!

**nawas** · 03-30-2013, 03:24 PM

Try this

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**FDibbins** · 03-30-2013, 03:25 PM

the syntax for an if() statement is...
=if(criteria-to-test,what-to-do-if-test=TRUE,what-to-do-if-test=FALSE)

**brianjones00** · 03-30-2013, 03:49 PM

thank you guys. i know i am making this way too hard. I
typed this into the cell where i wanted the addition sign to appear. however excel will not let me do it because it is a circular reference. not really sure what that means.

**brianjones00** · 03-30-2013, 04:02 PM

After looking it up I know what a circular reference is. I also found out how to disable them by going to options and enabling iterative calculations. Now it works. Thankyou!

**FDibbins** · 03-30-2013, 04:30 PM

umm OK, if you have a circ ref, you have probably done something wrong...it's never a good idea to turn off warning messages like that - circ errors can cause all sorts of wierd, unexpected answers to appear.

I would suggest you find/fix the error rather than ignore it...kinda like turning up the radio in the car coz the engine is making funny noises?

Im thinking that in B1 you need =if(isnumber(a1),"+",A1)

NOTE the "" around + these turn + into text, esle excel expects the + to be teh start of a formula