One thing that I do is to put the lookup formula in a column you are not
using, say Z1 for this example, then in the table you are using enter this
formula:

=if(iserror(z1),0,z1)

This way, if there is an error on the lookup you get 0 and if there is no
error, you get the lookup value.

"Nicky" wrote in message
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My VLOOKUP is returning #N/A because the cell which is the lookup value
isn't
in the table array its looking it up in. I am copying this data over from
another source . Is there a way to return either 0 or "" . As soon as I
put
the lookup reference in the data table it works fine. I have tryed ISBLANK
and ISNA but doesn't seem to work.
Below is what I am currently using.

=IF(ISBLANK(A5),"",VLOOKUP(A5,GOODSIN,3,FALSE))

many thanks...Nicky