Beginner: Issue with blank cells when formula is working out greater of two dates

joz110820

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I'm new to excel and am updating a training database. Collumn M has a formula in it that gives me the greater of the dates in I and K collumns. I'm finding that the blank cells put 00/01/1900 in the M collumn. I would like for those ones just to be blank. I've been googling and trying formula after formula with no success, keep getting error messages. Could anyone help me?
 

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Excel Formula:
=LET(m,MAX(I5,K5),IF(m=0,"",m))
 
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There is no nee for the ifna, you can just use a default value like
Excel Formula:
=IFS(I5>K5,I5,I5<K5,K5,1,"")
 
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