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.

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.

The lookup_array is the column in the set of data where we want Excel to find the lookup value (A2:A28). The return_array is the column (s) that contain the information we want to extract, which in ...

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 ...

To cope with that, I've tested Excel's optimal lookup functions and their combinations for building lightning-fast formulas that handle even massive spreadsheets with ease.

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. Search finds data in a cell and returns the ...

A little from column A, a little from column B: XLOOKUP is the new, easier way to retrieve information across Excel spreadsheets.

Learn how to perform Excel multiple column lookups with ease using XLOOKUP, FILTER, SUMPRODUCT, and Boolean logic techniques.

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 ...