Returning the first 4 rows of a table
 

Hi,
I have used a formula and a vlookup up to return a series of info some of
which are blanks and errors looking like this:-

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#N/A
#N/A
#N/A

I have a formula which tells me the number of rows which have values in, in
this case 4 but I now need excel to return just the first 4 rows so I can run
a graph off the info. I need excel to do all this itself as i need to run
this process 50 odd times and don't want to have to go and do that many
garphs individually. Any ideas would be great. Thanks

Returning the first 4 rows of a table
 

Not sure, but some thoughts to tinker with
Assuming the lookup values are in B2 down
you could try either of these IF traps to suppress the #N/A returns
=if(B2="","",vlookup(B2, €¦))
=if(isna(vlookup(B2, €¦)),"",vlookup(B2, €¦))
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"Dom" wrote:
I have used a formula and a vlookup up to return a series of info some of
which are blanks and errors looking like this:-

Consultant - Security 1
GIS and Geospatial 1
Helpdesk/Customer Services 15
Information Technology 34
#N/A
#N/A
#N/A

I have a formula which tells me the number of rows which have values in, in
this case 4 but I now need excel to return just the first 4 rows so I can run
a graph off the info. I need excel to do all this itself as i need to run
this process 50 odd times and don't want to have to go and do that many
garphs individually. Any ideas would be great. Thanks