VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only ...

This is my simple way to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to find data fast. I walk through how I use VLOOKUP to look up ...

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The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

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