My bad - I double-checked and found that original cell is empty. 
I can use it math formulas, but vlookup result generates error Err:502
when used in math expressions.
This inconsistency is wrong, I think.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 3:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [users] Vlookup of empty cell
> 
> I checked that with ISNUMBER on the cell containing the 
> VLOOKUP formula and got "TRUE".  How do you reach the 
> conclusion that the returned value is not a number?
> 
> Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
> > In my case cell is not empty - it contains the value of zero, I can 
> > use that cell in all math operations, but result of vlookup 
> is not a number.
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> <snip>
> >> Entering zeros in the range looked up would work.  I'm not 
> sure, if a 
> >> cell is blank, that the result from VLOOKUP is wrong.
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