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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a formula to check if any cells on a selection of 5 are empty. Hard to explain globally, but theorically the formula would look like this: IF (Cell 1) is empty OR (Cell 2) is empty OR (Cell 3) is empty… THEN display ✅

How can I achieve this on Airtable?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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You want to compare values with BLANK(), and use an OR() function.


IF(

  OR(

    Field1 = BLANK(),

    Field2 = BLANK(),

    Field3 = BLANK(),

    Field4 = BLANK(),

    Field5 = BLANK()

  ),

  "✅" 

)


If this answers your question, please mark this post as the solution. Otherwise, could you please give a bit more details and a screen capture?

An alternate approach is to use the shortcut method for checking whether or not a field has anything in it, by only including the field name. For example:


IF(Field1, ...

is equivalent to


IF(Field1 != BLANK(), ...

To invert the comparison, and see if it is blank, wrap the field name in NOT():


IF(NOT(Field1), ...

is equivalent to


IF(Field1 = BLANK(), ...

Which means the formula written above could also be written like this:


IF(

  OR(

    NOT(Field1),

    NOT(Field2),

    NOT(Field3),

    NOT(Field4),

    NOT(Field5)

  ),

  "✅" 

)

Yet another way is to invert the entire thing. Because you’re checking for any one of those fields to be blank, this will also work:


IF(NOT(AND(Field1, Field2, Field3, Field4, Field5)), "✅")

This only downside to this field-name-only shortcut is when it’s a numeric field. Airtable will read a 0 in a numeric field as false. In that case you would have to compare against BLANK() to correctly distinguish between an empty field and one that contains a 0.

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