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Is it possible to have a formula somehow on cell A1 that checks as a conditional if A1 is empty?

Obviously, the default way I'm getting a circular dependency error. However, I figure some formula might be (?) smart enough to see that when A1 is in the conditional (and not a part of the new value) it's not really a circular dependency after all.

So does a function like this exist?

Basically: if cell itself is empty -> fill it, otherwise do nothing

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  • Welcome to Web Applications Geert-Jan, I think your question is a duplicate of the one I just added. – Jacob Jan Tuinstra Sep 8 '14 at 7:50
  • @JacobJanTuinstra: not quite. Given your answer to that question I'm trying to assign =IF(ISBLANK(A1)=TRUE,"Blank cell","Not blank") to A1. Obviously assigning it to any other cell would work. – Geert-Jan Sep 8 '14 at 8:51
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    Ok, no dup. but would you accept no for an answer? That's not possible. – Jacob Jan Tuinstra Sep 8 '14 at 8:58
  • @JacobJanTuinstra: yup I accept it ;) Just wanted to confirm. thanks – Geert-Jan Sep 8 '14 at 9:06
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For plain old formula's, that's not possible, simply because it will create a circular dependency.

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