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Kimberlee Adam

Is there a formula I can use so that when I'm creating a budget burndown, that if I don't have the actual numbers yet, that it will use the forecast instead?

Jeff Hoelzel

Assuming you want to pick up the value in the Forecast Burndown column same row if Actual - Cap is blank or calculate Actual when there is a value in the Actual - Cap column, then

=IF([Actual - Cap]@Row="",[Forecast Burndown]@row,[Forecast - Cap]@row-[Actual - Cap]@row+[Forecast Burndown]@row)

Jeff Hoelzel

Assuming you want to pick up the value in the Forecast Burndown column same row if Actual - Cap is blank or calculate Actual when there is a value in the Actual - Cap column, then

=IF([Actual - Cap]@Row="",[Forecast Burndown]@row,[Forecast - Cap]@row-[Actual - Cap]@row+[Forecast Burndown]@row)

Kimberlee Adam

Thank you!

MCorbin

This would do it....

=IF(ISBLANK([Actual Burndown]@row), [Forecast Burndown]@row, [Actual Burndown]@row)

BUT..... Is the value in the Actual Burndown column a formula or manually entered?

If it's manually entered, you could put the above formula in the blank cells, then just overwrite it with the manually entered value, when you have one.

If there's already a formula in Actual Burndown (perhaps totaling data from another sheet?), I would change the above formula to look like this:

=IF(originalformula<0, [Forecast Burndown]@row, originalformula)

Kimberlee Adam

I'm still stuck on this. I know it's got to be something so simple that I'm missing. But you can see that the blank rows are not calculating correctly.