how to return "n/a" when no match is found.

[Guest]

I've got a workbook w/ one sheet that has downloaded fuel tax rates named
CurrentTaxRates. On another sheet in the workbook, I'm trying to obtain the
tax rates via lookup functions for particular states. Some states, but not
all, have a surcharge rate in addition to the tax rate. I have the following
formula which is giving me the surcharge rate for the states that have one.
However, if a state does not have a surcharge rate, it's giving me an error -
#VALUE! How do write it so that if a state does not have a surcharge rate,
it returns "N/A" ? Thanks for your help

=IF(VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & "
schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE),NA,VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & "
schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE))

 

[Tyro]

This will return #N/A all by itself if the lookup value is not found.

=VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & " schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE)

 

[Bob Phillips]

If #N/A is okay, juust use

=VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & " schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE)

else use

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & "
schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE)),"N/A",
VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61 & " schg"),CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE))

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Dave Peterson]

ps.

You can use:
=IF(VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE($A61,"schg"), ...
or
=IF(VLOOKUP($A61&"schg"), ...

But you don't need to concatenate a string that's already concatenated.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. That is what I started with but got #Value! when
there was no match for the lookup value which is why I was trying to
incorporate the IF statement. In another post concerning a cell calculation,
I unchecked the "transition formula evaluation" option and when I did, the
VLookup function returned #N/A on no match.

 

[Tyro]

This formula works fine for me in Excel 2007. It returns a value from the
table if the lookup value exists, if not it returns #N/A

=VLOOKUP($A61 & " schg",CurrentTaxRates,2,FALSE)

I seem to remember that "transistion formula evaluation" has something to do
with Lotus 123. Are you working with or converting 123 workbooks?

Tyro