ISERR

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Chris Lane

If I use the ISERR function, it doesn't catch NA errors. To do this I would
need to use ISERROR. Why would I then need to use ISERR at all?
Thanks
 
Hi Aladin
sumif - but the question was a general one asked out of interest.
Thanks for the reply
 
from help:

ISERR Value refers to any error value except #N/A.

#N/A is a valid return for many of the lookup functions. If you needed to
know if an error besides #N/A is being returned, it would be appropriate to
use ISERR.

As an example, if you had a table that that you wanted to use Vlookup with
and the returned values are calculated in the table. If the value returned
is #DIV/0! then ISERR could be used to test that the value being returned is
an error and not that the value being looked up is not found.
 
Thanks Tom

Tom Ogilvy said:
from help:

ISERR Value refers to any error value except #N/A.

#N/A is a valid return for many of the lookup functions. If you needed to
know if an error besides #N/A is being returned, it would be appropriate
to
use ISERR.

As an example, if you had a table that that you wanted to use Vlookup with
and the returned values are calculated in the table. If the value
returned
is #DIV/0! then ISERR could be used to test that the value being returned
is
an error and not that the value being looked up is not found.
 

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