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Excel Issue

Cotta
Cotta Posts: 3,667 Forumite
Morning All,

I have the following formula included to pull dates and where the cell contains no date I want it to appear blank, however when the cell is blank it returns 0/01/1900, is there anyway to correct this?
Below is the code I use:

=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(O3,'Dates'!E:G,3,FALSE),"")

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  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(O3,'Dates'!E:G,3,FALSE)," ")

    Change null string to a space?
  • Tried it on Excel 2010 and your formula does give a blank cell but if formula is =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(O3,'Dates'!E:G,3,FALSE),O3) and the cells are formatted as dates you get the 00/01/1900 you describe.


    =IF(ISBLANK(O3),"",IFERROR(VLOOKUP(O3,E:G,3,FALSE),""))


    should work.
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