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 ...

You can use VLOOKUP with Google Sheets similar to how the search function is used to find information in Excel.

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