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Jun 04, 2020 08:06 AM
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 :white_check_mark:
How can I achieve this on Airtable?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Jun 04, 2020 08:23 AM
Welcome to the Airtable community!
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?

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Jun 04, 2020 08:23 AM
Welcome to the Airtable community!
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?

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Jun 06, 2020 07:20 PM
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.
