Missing Columns

[DSL1970]

I am working on some vlookups from a Pivot table that has five results on them; however some of the results are null, so the column disappears. I have been able to link it to the grand total, which is what I want, just not to sure how I can get it to link on the columns. This is my statement:


=IF(AND((VLOOKUP("Grand Total"&"",Workings!$I$110:$N$130,2,0)),D$7=Workings!J$110),(VLOOKUP("Grand Total"&"",Workings!$I$110:$N$130,2,0)),Workings!J$110)


Where the Workings is the Pivot Tables, and once a column is missing, I have the statement indicate what result was in that question. Just need to ensure that each pivot result is going into the correct column on my data sheet. You will see from below that question 1 does not have any values for Slightly Significant, and the results coming up in that column would be for Not at All Significant. I would prefer the Slightly Significant column having a zero, and move the Not at all significant to the correct corresponding column.

Regards,

	Extremely Significant	Very Significant	Moderately Significant	Slightly Significant	Not at all Significant	Grand Total
1	9	4	2	Not at all Significant	Grand Total	#REF!
2	3	6	2	1	8	20
3	5	4	2	2	7	20
4	7	2	6	1	4	20
5	7	2	2	3	6	20
6	4	3	Slightly Significant	Not at all Significant	Grand Total	#REF!
7	6	2	4	2	6	20
8	8	5	Slightly Significant	Not at all Significant	Grand Total	#REF!
9	7	2	1	1	9	20
10	6	1	3	1	9	20
11	0	2	3	Not at all Significant	Grand Total	#REF!
12	Very Significant	Moderately Significant	Slightly Significant	Not at all Significant	Grand Total	#REF!
13	1	3	1	1	14	20
14	3	2	1	2	12	20
15	3	1	3	2	11	20

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[bmacias]

I'm not sure I follow you entirely, but when faced with a similar situation, I create a secondary table with error checking. In this manner one can account for the disappearing columns on certain questions. SO in your case I would create a table and in one column I would have the words Extremely Significant, Very Significant, Moderately Significant, Slightly Significant, Not at all Significant, Grand Total. On a 2nd column I would do a vlookup such as "if(iserror(vloookup(K5,I110:N130,2,0)),0,vloookup(K5,I110:N130,2,0)). Where k5 houses the first value of the created table "Extremely Significant"; therefore, if "Extremely Significant" has disappeared from the pivot table, it returns a 0. Have your vlookups point to this table instead of the pivot itself. Hope this is of use to you.

Cheers,

Ben