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Default VLOOKUP NOT RETURNING EXPECTED DATA

I am trying to search data from between various sheets of a single workbook
but my results are not quite what I expected. I have a single workbook in
which I am looking for different data on seperate sheets but which will
display data that initially originates from one sheet which is collected by
another and then displayed on a third.

The workbook is a data base of league players, on my first sheet tab I have
all of their contact details typed in, I then use this to transfer their
details onto other sheets using their reference No. and the VLOOKUP option.

My cell contains the calc =IF(A4<"",VLOOKUP(A4,'PREMIERSHIP -
NR'!$A$4:$O$203,6,FALSE),"")

where 'PREMIERSHIP - NR' is the name of the sheet I am searching from -
!$A$4:$O$203 is the range from that sheet and 6 (which is a cell holding a
written name) is the column holding the detail I want to find.

The calc works well and finds and displays the correct data when there is
something actually written or displlayed in it, but my difficulty is that in
many instances there is no data displayed for it to find €“ i.e. it is a blank
cell but returns as #N/A in some instances or 0 (zero) in others and this has
confused the hell out of me.

What I want to try to do is return the word if it is written in the target
cell (which it does do) or absolutely nothing if the target cell contains
nothing to report which in some instances it does not which is when it will
return the zero but in others there is a calc which only displays if filled
by other criteria being fullfiled and it is in this instance when I get the
#N/A returned.

Could anyone please help me out with a solution.

 
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