Tim Lovelock » MONTH http://www.timlovelock.net Materials / Master Scheduling / Production Control / Supply Chain Management Professional Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:37:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Excel functions I use daily http://www.timlovelock.net/2009/11/21/excel-functions-i-use-daily/ http://www.timlovelock.net/2009/11/21/excel-functions-i-use-daily/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:24:39 +0000 Tim http://timlovelock.net/?p=316
  • VLOOKUP
  • IF
  • ISERROR
  • CONCATENATE
  • YEAR
  • MONTH
  • WEEKNUM

    • My favorite function mashup is to combine IF, ISERROR, and VLOOKUP to return either a value from another table, or 0 (or blank, if you prefer). Here’s how to do it:

    =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP([Std vlookup formula])),0,(VLOOKUP([Std vlookup formula])))

    Here’s the logic: If the Vlookup returns an error (i.e., the value of the referenced cell does not exist in the lookup range), then return a value of Zero, else return the value found in the lookup range.

    Why? It gets rid of those nasty “#N/A” errors.

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