Use a Custom number format.

Select the cell and press Ctrl-1. On the Number tab choose Custom and in
the Style box type

m/d/yyyy;;""



"bollard" wrote:

We have a sheet which contains a VLOOKUP. But when the date looked up on
another sheet finds a blank, the date returned onto the sheet with the
VLOOKUP command, comes up with the date: 00/01/1900. We'd like it just to
show a blank field.

This is the current formula: =VLOOKUP(A3,Offers!$B$2:$U$751,18,FALSE)

Thanks.