Excel97-VLOOKUP: #N/A error: Auto change rtn as Value?

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Mark

Aim:To automatically have returned ONLY values
(irrespective of match or not!).

Problem: I need to total all values returned but some
lookup's return #N/A where no true/exact match, so being
non-value can't sum total.

Data matrix 100x100, so too big to manually correct each
occurence of #N/A and table_array is smaller than
lookup_value range so FALSE answer producing #N/A is
always a possibility.

So situation, using VLOOKUP as defined below 1) & 2);

1) VLOOKUP
(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,range_lookup)

2) If VLOOKUP can't find lookup_value, and range_lookup is
FALSE, VLOOKUP returns the #N/A value

The answer will sometimes be FALSE, hence #N/A returned in
cell.

Surely someone has come across this problem where they
need to total lookup values returned and have devised a
way to automatically input value (say 0.00) in leiu of
#N/A.


Any suggestions

thx

Mark
 

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