Excel: If Cell is Blank then Skip to Next Cell

You can use the IF function with the ISLBANK function in Excel to skip a cell if it is blank when performing some calculation.

For example, you could use the following syntax:

=IF(ISBLANK(A2), "", B2*C2)

This particular example will do the following:

If cell A2 is blank, then simply return a blank value.
If cell A2 is not blank, then return cell B2 multiplied by cell C2.

You can then click and drag this formula down to other cells in a column.

The following example shows how to use this syntax in practice.

Example: If Cell is Blank then Skip to Next Cell in Excel

Suppose we have the following dataset in Excel that shows the number of units sold of some item and the unit price for various employees at some company:

Suppose we would like to calculate the total revenue generated by each employee by multiplying the value in the Units column by the value in the Price column, but only if the cell in the Employee column is not empty.

We can type the following formula into cell D2 to do so:

=IF(ISBLANK(A2), "", B2*C2)

We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column D:

Excel skip to next cell if blank

Here is how this formula worked:

Cell A2 was not empty, so the formula returned 40 * 4 = 160.
Cell A3 was not empty, so the formula returned 20 * 5 = 100.
Cell A4 was empty, so the formula skipped the calculation and moved to the next cell.
Cell A5 was empty, so the formula skipped the calculation and moved to the next cell.

And so on.