Hiding vs showing an error

1. How to hide value error?
2. What is a silent error?
3. How to hide n a error in Excel?
4. How do you swallow an exception?

How to hide value error?

You can hide error values by converting them to a number such as 0, and then applying a conditional format that hides the value. Open a blank workbook, or create a new worksheet. Enter 3 in cell B1, enter 0 in cell C1, and in cell A1, enter the formula =B1/C1. The #DIV/0!

What is a silent error?

Silent errors are errors in application state that have escaped low-level error detection. At extreme scale, where machines can perform astronomically many operations per second, silent errors threaten the validity of computed results.

How to hide n a error in Excel?

To hide the #N/A error that VLOOKUP throws when it can't find a value, you can use the IFERROR function to catch the error and return any value you like.

How do you swallow an exception?

In computer programming, error hiding (or error swallowing) is the practice of catching an error or exception, and then continuing without logging, processing, or reporting the error to other parts of the software. Handling errors in this manner is considered bad practice and an anti-pattern in computer programming.