Typically, you would pre-test for the item to find....
Here are a couple ways:

=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH("find_me",A1:A10,0)),VLOOKUP("f ind_me",A1:C10,3,0),"")
or
=IF(COUNTIF("find_me",A1:A10),VLOOKUP("find_me",A1 :C10,3,0),"")

Is that something you can work with?

Regards,

Ron Coderre
Microsoft MVP (Excel)

"smiley61799" wrote in message
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When you do not have information for a cell how do you get it to leave the
cell blank or return a zero as opposed to the #N/A