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#N/A entries

by - Sarah [guest] (2008 Jun 4 Wed, 14:41) Reply

Where a vlookup returns #N/A as the answer, I need to be able to display this as zero - so that I can then include this cell in a furthur calculation.
Extracting figures >0 still includes #N/A.
Any ideas how to do this ?

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RE: #N/A entries

by - trainer Amanda diamond contributer [1298 posts] (2008 Jun 6 Fri, 14:40) Reply

Hi Sarah

Thank you for your question; and welcome to the forum.

You could try the following:
Create another formula in a separate cell that looks at the cell with the vlookup in it, and displays 0 if there is an #N/A error or displays the vlookup result if there is one.

The formula would look like this (say the vlookup formula is in cell B6):

=if(isna(B6),0,vlookup(cell,table array,column,false)

Then you can refer to the cell with the above formula in it in other formulas.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

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