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Use IFERROR/ISBLANK to avoid "No data to visualize" in Google Sheets
Use IFERROR/ISBLANK to avoid "No data to visualize" in Google Sheets

If you want to avoid "No data to visualize" and prefer seeing 0s when your formulas reset, we recommend using IFERROR or ISBLANK.

Updated over a year ago

It is normal, and even expected, for some of your Google Sheets formulas to reset periodically, for example, at the beginning of each week or month.

Depending on your formula, that reset could be to either zero (0) or blank (empty cell). Again, that's perfectly normal and even anticipated. However, the difference between 0 and an empty cell can be meaningful in the sense that 0 will display a 0 on your widget (see right image), and an empty cell will show "No data to visualize" (see left image).

Difference between when cell powered a formula displays a 0 when rest and when empty.

If you want to avoid "No data to visualize" and prefer seeing 0s when your formulas reset, we recommend using IFERROR or ISBLANK.

IFERROR example

To protect against errors in your spreadsheet, wrap your formulas using IFERROR. For example, use A instead of just B.

A:

=IFERROR(QUERY(Calculations,"select count(A) where E is not null and N matches '"&Calculations!$R$2&"' and E like '%"&A2&"%' label count(A) ''"),0)

B:

=QUERY(Calculations,"select count(A) where E is not null and N matches '"&Calculations!$R$2&"' and E like '%"&A2&"%' label count(A) ''")

ISBLANK example

Let's say that you have a number widget powered by a cell B2 and B2's value is =A2. Instead, we'd recommend using =IF(ISBLANK(A2),0,A2). This way, if A2 is empty, the cell that powers your widget will default to 0 instead of also being empty, which will result in "No data to visualize".

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