vlookup in excel have alternative result than #N/A selectable
 

I need to be able to nominate alternative result to #N/A when the vlookup
function fails to find the search criteria in the array being searched.

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vlookup in excel have alternative result than #N/A selectable
 

=IF(ISNA(YourLookupFormula),YourAlternativeResult, YourLookupFormula)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Bruce A" wrote in message ...
|I need to be able to nominate alternative result to #N/A when the vlookup
| function fails to find the search criteria in the array being searched.
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