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

How to use the powerful Microsoft Excel VLOOKUP feature that allows you to search for specific data in a column and return a value from a ...

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

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

Suppose you are a project manager using Excel to track your team’s tasks. You have created a database with columns like Tasks, Assignee, Status, and Due Date. Now you want to ch ...

USING VLOOKUP TO DO BANK RECONCILIATIONS I enjoyed the article “Double-Teaming in Excel” ( JofA , Nov.05, page 83 ). VLOOKUP is so versatile; I have used it to reconcile outstanding checks each month.

Modern Excel functions like XLOOKUP, TEXTJOIN, and dynamic arrays offer faster, more versatile, and error-resistant alternatives to outdated tools such as VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET.

Overview Functions like INDEX MATCH, SUMIF, and XNPV allow professionals to work smarter, not harder, especially when handling large or complex data sets.Using ...