When you dive into the world of Excel, you quickly realize the power of its functions. Among these, the INDEX & MATCH formulas stand out as incredibly versatile tools for data lookup and retrieval ...

Excel MATCH is a Lookup and Reference function to search for specific items in a range of cell & return the relative position of that item in the range.

How Excel's INDEX and XMATCH Functions Work Before we look at how these two functions can be used together in one formula, let's take a moment to explore how they work in isolation.

The bigger your spreadsheet, the more you need INDEX and MATCH functions, which you can combine with SUM, AVERAGE, and MAX to refine your searches.

Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible.

Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on ...

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.

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.