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 ...

The XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP choice is tied to scenario, as most needs are fixed lookups, letting you save time with the simpler ...

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 can ...

Microsoft Copilot, the new AI-powered tool integrated into Excel, transforms the way you perform data lookup and merging tasks using functions like VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP. This step-by-step guide will ...

The VLOOKUP function in Microsoft Excel literally means vertical lookup. It’s a search function for querying values in the cell of a column. This function searches for the data relative to the entries ...

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 ...

If your lookup range and lookup value are kept in different Excel workbooks, then don’t worry about it because VLOOKUP can get things done with ease. Now, if you wish to VLOOKUP workbooks via Excel ...

lookup_value is the value we want Excel to search for. lookup_array is where we want Excel to search for the lookup value. return_array is where the data exists that we want Excel to return.

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 ...