To use VLOOKUP to find data in another Excel workbook requires multiple workbooks' relevant data. Once you have them, follow these steps.

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that ...

One approach in Excel would be to add a column to Sheet B (?) that does a VLOOKUP of the name from that row in Sheet B against the table in Sheet A.

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell.

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

Although a running balance is commonly maintained on the same Excel worksheet as the debits or credits, you can also keep a running balance with figures that reside on different Excel sheets.

VLOOKUP, one of the most useful Microsoft Excel functions, is also available on Google Sheets. Here's how to use VLOOKUP to sift through Sheets data.