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why am i encountering result N#A when doing the VLOOKUP function

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Niek Otten
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"Mame" wrote in message
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why am i encountering result N#A when doing the VLOOKUP function

it's because the lookup value cannot be found, If you are only worried
about N/A then use this ISNA function like this:
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A1,A2:C10,2,FALSE)),"None",VLOOKU P(A1,A2:C10,2,FALSE))
You can change ISNA for ISERROR to handle all errors.

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