How to Enter Formulas in Excel to Show Not Less Than Zero

Hide Negative Values With Conditional Formatting
1. Select the cell(s) in your Excel spreadsheet you wish to format.
2. Click “Conditional Formatting” under the “Format” menu.
3. Select “Cell value is” from the first drop-down menu for Condition 1.
4. Select “less than or equal to” from the second drop-down menu.
5. Enter 0 in the next box.
6. Click on the Format button and select white in the color drop-down menu. If the background color of your cells is something other than white, select a color that will blend in and make it appear as if the cell is empty.
7. Click OK. Any cells you have applied this conditional formatting to will appear to be blank if the value in the cell is equal to or less than zero. If you place your cursor in the cell you will be able to see the cell’s actual value in the formula bar at the top of the worksheet.
Display Negative Values As Blank Cells or Dashes
8. Use the IF function to specify the format of a result that is equal to or less than zero. The syntax of the IF function is IF(logical_test,value_if_true,value_if_false)
9. Enter 1 in cell A1 and enter 2 in cell A2 of your worksheet.
10. Create an IF formula in cell A3 by typing: =IF(A1-A2>0,A1-A2,“-”). In this example the logical test is whether cell A1 minus cell A2 is greater than zero. If it is the “value_if_true” it will display; if it isn’t, the “value_if_false” will display. In our formula we defined the value_if_true as the difference between cells A1 and A2 and the value_if_false as a dash. Therefore, if A1-A2 is zero or less you’ll see a dash in cell A3, if the result is positive, you will see a number.
11. Change the values in cells A1 and A2 to see how it affects what displays in cell A3.