The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.

As a long-term Excel enthusiast, I have always enjoyed using VLOOKUP, one of Excel's best-known lookup functions. However, Microsoft's introduction of XLOOKUP in 2019 changed everything. Once I ...

The VLOOKUP function in Excel is an incredibly powerful and versatile tool for data retrieval and analysis. It allows you to efficiently search for a specific value in one column of a table and ...

Lookup functions are great for finding values that match another value. Thanks to XLOOKUP () this task is easier than ever, and it even supports wildcards! In this article, I’ll show you how to ...

Excel's XLOOKUP function is a powerful tool for data retrieval, allowing users to search for a value in a range and return a corresponding value from ...

If you work with a large dataset or usually query the same data in an Excel table, then you should use the VLOOKUP function to make your life easier – here's how.

If there isn’t one, use the next larger value (1). Wildcard match (2). [search_mode] is optional and allows you to choose how Excel will search for the lookup value in the lookup_array. The default ...

The trick to using Excel's VLOOKUP effectively is knowing what commands and values to use in what order.

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.

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Learn how to use the VLOOKUP formula to compare a maximum of two columns to have common values returned or to locate missing data.