The VLOOKUP function is one of the most useful when pulling information from an Excel database. Here's how it works and how you can start using it in your work.

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

This tutorial will explain how to use the VLOOKUP formula to compare a maximum of two columns in a bid to have common values returned or to locate missing data.

For example, if you want Excel to find the string "POC135," change the formula to:=VLOOKUP ("POC135", E3:H10, 3, FALSE) Replace unknown characters in the string with question marks, which ...

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 ...

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

What’s a vlookup, you ask? For the uninformed, this fun little Excel command allows you to extract a value based on the position of another value. So, for example, suppose you had a spreadsheet ...

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 ...

Following on from our time saving Excel shortcuts, we continue offering updated advice for the time-sensitive spreadsheet enthusiast. Back in 2013 John Gagnon wrote a very popular post about VLOOKUP ...

XLOOKUP: A Modern Take on VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP XLOOKUP is arguably the mother of all lookup functions in Excel, which is surprising given it took Microsoft over 30 years to come up with it!