Try this:

Instead of "", try using a common holiday (even if it would be a duplicate),
like 1/1 or 12/25 or whatever would be most common to all situations.

Alternatively, if your list is populated by formulas....have the skipped
cell just refer to the date above it.

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro


"RMTP" wrote:

If the holiday vector in NETWORKDAYS(start,end,holiday_vector) contains any
"null" strings (i.e. they've had the value "" inserted), then NETWORKDAYS()
returns #VALUE!

Any ideas how to get around this? I do need to have the empty cells - the
vector can be used for different countries, with different numbers of
holidays. And I can't use zero as the empty filler, since 0 actually
represents a valid date.

I'm converting from OpenOffice's spreadsheet which doesn't have the same
problem.

tia.
rmtp