How to Hide errors before printing in Excel

In this article, we will learn How to Hide errors before printing in Excel.

Scenario:

Errors in excel shows there is some problem in formula calculation, or misinterpretation of values. But sometimes you know errors are coming in data and doesn't need to print the data with error values. So for problems like these, there are many ways to handle it. But here we understand how we can do it easily using the IFERROR function. Let's learn about IFERROR function and then understand using an example.

IFERROR formula in Excel

IFERROR function takes the value and returns the value if the value is not error or if the value is error, then it returns the new value or blank, as it requires.

IFERROR formula syntax

cell_ref : cell reference of the cell value to check

value_if_error : new value if cell contains error. Use "" if a blank cell is needed.

Alternate way

Use conditional formatting. Make a new rule with conditional formula =ISERROR(cell_ref) and select the font format as transparent or white. This will make the font disappear wherever the value is an error.

Example :

All of these might be confusing to understand. Let's understand how to use the function using an example. Here we have a table to print. The table is calculated using many formulas and has errors. But it doesn't look good with errors. We use blank cells.

Make a new column Total price and use the formula in the E2 cell.

Use the formula:

Copy and paste this formula to other cells using the Ctrl + D or dragging down from the tiny right bottom corner of the cell.

As you can see all the errors are gone in the new column. Now hide the column with errors and print.

Alternate method

If there are few cells, then You can also just select the cell and switch the font color of cell value to transparent or white to make it invisible.

To make the above method interesting. We can use conditional formatting. Make a new rule with conditional formula =ISERROR(cell_ref) and now use the font format as transparent or white. Use this if you have a large amount of data with errors.

Here are all the observational notes using the formula in Excel
Notes :

1. The formula works with text and number both.
2. Use IFERROR while computing with other formulas. So the output of the formula is never an error.
3. There are 8 types of errors #DIV, #VALUE, #NUM, #NAME, #N/A, #REF, #null, #getting_data.

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