How to prevent Vlookup from returning empty rows when there is no match












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I am using Vlookup to match to columns an different sheets and it is working



But when there is no match my formula returns an empty row



Is there a way to prevent the empty rows from being outputted



Thanks



=ArrayFormula(iferror(vlookup(Elements!C2:C, 'tab2'!$A$2:$P, {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}, 0)))










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  • What is meant by "empty row"?

    – theMayer
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:45











  • A row with no data

    – Einarr
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:52
















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I am using Vlookup to match to columns an different sheets and it is working



But when there is no match my formula returns an empty row



Is there a way to prevent the empty rows from being outputted



Thanks



=ArrayFormula(iferror(vlookup(Elements!C2:C, 'tab2'!$A$2:$P, {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}, 0)))










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  • What is meant by "empty row"?

    – theMayer
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:45











  • A row with no data

    – Einarr
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:52














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I am using Vlookup to match to columns an different sheets and it is working



But when there is no match my formula returns an empty row



Is there a way to prevent the empty rows from being outputted



Thanks



=ArrayFormula(iferror(vlookup(Elements!C2:C, 'tab2'!$A$2:$P, {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}, 0)))










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I am using Vlookup to match to columns an different sheets and it is working



But when there is no match my formula returns an empty row



Is there a way to prevent the empty rows from being outputted



Thanks



=ArrayFormula(iferror(vlookup(Elements!C2:C, 'tab2'!$A$2:$P, {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16}, 0)))







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  • What is meant by "empty row"?

    – theMayer
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:45











  • A row with no data

    – Einarr
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:52



















  • What is meant by "empty row"?

    – theMayer
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:45











  • A row with no data

    – Einarr
    Nov 24 '18 at 21:52

















What is meant by "empty row"?

– theMayer
Nov 24 '18 at 21:45





What is meant by "empty row"?

– theMayer
Nov 24 '18 at 21:45













A row with no data

– Einarr
Nov 24 '18 at 21:52





A row with no data

– Einarr
Nov 24 '18 at 21:52












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You could wrap your formula in a query:



=query(y o u r   f o r m u l a, "where Col1 is not NULL")





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        =query(y o u r   f o r m u l a, "where Col1 is not NULL")






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