I just re-tested. If a1 is blank you still get n/a. Isn't this what OP asked
for?
I only used [a1] for brevity in the formula part and didn't notice an
appreciable change in speed. Perhaps this is more important with very slow
computers with little memory. <G


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"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Just for information if you are actually trying to learn something:
I your look at Don's code, the reason it works is because he used
application.Vlookup rather than Application.worksheetFunction.Vlookup. If
A1 is blank that would be problematic as well, but he did nothing in his
code to correct for that - only made it slower by replacing Range("A1")
with
[a1]

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Thanks for your help.

It works, at last I can now stop banging my head!!


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