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In this Microsoft Excel video tutorial I explain how to return a blank instead of a zero when performing a lookup. I also explain how to return a blank instead of the date 1/0/1900. This method works for VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Introduction

Custom Number Format Solutions to Replace Zero with Blank
00:27 - Custom number format to replace 1/0/1900 date with blank
01:57 - Custom number format to replace zero with blank
02:44 - Custom number format to return blank instead of zero for text lookup

Formula Solutions to Replace Zero with Blank
03:42 - IF INDEX MATCH ="" (empty text string)
04:38 - IF ISBLANK INDEX MATCH
05:16 - IF LEN INDEX MATCH
06:14 - IF VLOOKUP
06:38 - IF XLOOKUP
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