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  • adding a little more context would help others understand what they should see if they pick one of these options. Commented Oct 14, 2018 at 12:18
  • mhoran_psprep, the OP asked why two different COUNTIF formulas were saying that his A1 formula =IF(1=0,"Some output","") was returning a result that was both blank and not blank, instead of blank. Specifically, he wanted =COUNTIF(A1, "<>") to return 0, but it was returning 1. Using either of my suggested formulas will return 0 as he hoped, by separately appending the ASCII null character code - CHAR(0) - or the NULL keyword. Commented Oct 14, 2018 at 19:10
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    And if you add that explanation the answer becomes better. Commented Oct 14, 2018 at 20:06