Excel Magic Trick 1260: VLOOUP Returns Zero when Lookup Table Contains Empty Cell? 3 Fixes.

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Excel Magic Trick 1260: VLOOUP Returns Zero when Lookup Table Contains Empty Cell? 3 Fixes.
Learn how to prevent VLOOKUP from returning a zero when it sees an empty cell in the lookup table:
1. (00:12) Problem setup.
2. (00:49) Create Sequential Numbers for the col_index_num in VLOOKUP using COLUMNS function and expandable range when you are copying formula across the columns.
3. (03:27) Solution #1: Custom Number Format Solution. Learn about the four sections for Custom Number Formatting
4. (05:55) Solution #2: Formula Solution with VLOOKUP and IF functions
5. (07:33) Solution #3: Create Zero-Length Text Strings in empty cells in lookup table.
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This is amazing!!! The scope of custom formatting is so vast We can just skip lengthy formulae. This could be great while using with tables.

killerhunk
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Well done, a pleasure watching as always

alandouglas
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I prefer formula method with &"" (or via IF function) as custom format masks the vlookup answer of 0 in the cell (a 0 that isn't in data yet really is there due to how vlookup handles blanks)....Anyway, it's Friday night maybe I should turn off Excel for a bit? :)

MySpreadsheetLab
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To hide 0 (zero) in Custom Format, type General;General;

Ingolf
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you can do to excel videos french office if it please you

mysamirasamira
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Instead of entering ="" in the empty cells, you can populate with an apostrophe.

alberthdez
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You can avoid the double VLOOKUP().
=VLOOKUP()&""

XLarium
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Help!! can anyone give me guidance Please, I have a workbook  with multiple sheets that I need to pull info from each sheet to update the current sheet in the current workbook. I have been manually changing the formula in each cell on each sheet to extract the info bcs my formula doesn't flow. I'm feeling tired from the hours spent updating.

vincecottone
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Quick question: I convert another format file to Excel and there are a lot of cells are blank that I want to display 0 value for those blank cells. So how do I do this? Thanks in advance

hnguyen