Linked Workbooks: zero placeholder

bowriter

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I have a pretty simple question but it's bugging me! I have cells linked between two workbooks and the links work! However when I enter a value (text) in the source workbook and then delete that value, I get a "0" value (zero placeholder) in my dependent workbook. I have tried to override this by setting the cells in both the dependent and source as "text" and i tired "general", but neither helped! I just want the dependent cell to be blank (as it is in the source wkbk) if at all possible without that annoying "0".

In advance, thank you!

Robert Kelly
 

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