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Vlookup Date, But Leave Cell Empty If No Date Is Found?

Once again I must humbly come to the great minds for assistance.

I have a spreadsheet that I am setting up to track training dates. Using Vlookup, it will return the date of training in each of many categories for each employee. Some employees will not require some of the training, so the date cell will be blank. But on my tracking sheet, if the Vlookup finds no date it fills the cell with 1/0/00, and I need to be rid of that.

I considered using conditional formatting, but I am already using that to identify training that is about to expire. If the date returned is within a month of expiring (annual training) then it will change the font to purple, and if it is within two weeks of expiring then the font will be red. So, when I tried to make any 1/0/00 entry change to a white font to make it invisible, it just doesn't work. This is the Vlookup I am using:

=VLOOKUP(J4,'[Required training by position PII presentation.xls]Employee Dates'!$A$4:$AN$16,4,FALSE)

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!


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