I have to build a lot of logic in to trap errors that are returned with V or
H lookups and it would be nice to be able to just return a 0 if the lookup is
an error.

If there is a way to do this I am not aware of it.

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=IF(ISERROR(your-lookup-formula),0,your-lookup-formula)
=IF(ISNA(your-lookup-formula),0,your-lookup-formula)
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"Midwest User" <Midwest wrote in message
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I have to build a lot of logic in to trap errors that are returned with V
or
H lookups and it would be nice to be able to just return a 0 if the lookup
is
an error.

If there is a way to do this I am not aware of it.

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try = if(iserror(vlookup(a1,range,2)),0,vlookup(a1,range ,2)) or
=if(isna(vlookup(a1,range,2)),0,vlookup(a1,range,2 ))


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