I have a spreadsheet for tracking debt. I have a starting balance and then two columns, one for payments and one for remaining balance. E.g. Starting balance - £6000, Payment - £100, Remaining Balance - £5900 (automatically calculated). I currently have the formula set to (for example) =MAX(0,B26-C31) so that when the debt is cleared, the cells show 0 rather than continuing to calculate amounts.
My issue is that the above formula is generating the remaining balance in all cells on the payment column, even when there is no data entered in the payment cells. It feels messy and unnecessary to have the remaining balance going all the way down until more payments are entered. I'm trying to get it so that unless there is data entered in the payment column, it is blank in the remaining balance column. I'm not sure how to combine the MAX and IF function correctly to meet both needs? Any help appreciated!