As you use Microsoft Excel more and more, you'll find that the VLOOKUP function is a very popular tool for dealing with large Excel directories or databases. It allows the user to quickly find ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Following on from our time saving Excel shortcuts, we continue offering updated advice for the time-sensitive spreadsheet enthusiast. Back in 2013 John Gagnon wrote a very popular post about VLOOKUP ...

In Excel a "Vlookup," short for vertical lookup, is a formula used to return a value from a table of data. For example, you might want to add a column to a customer information spreadsheet that tells ...

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Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns of data, only to be let down by outdated functions like VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP? You might be interested ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...

VLOOKUP is a formula that allows you to “look up” certain data and retrieve it into another table, by row. This function can be especially useful when you have a well-structured table with information ...

An curved arrow pointing right. VLOOKUP is one of the most useful functions in Excel. You can pull specific data out of huge data sets with a simple formula. Just watch. Produced by Sara Silverstein ...