One critical aspect to remember when using VLOOKUP is that it can only search for data in the first column of the table array. For this reason, it’s important to organize your data accordingly.

VLOOKUP 201: The John Smith Problem and Going Left After you use VLOOKUP enough, you’ll encounter its limitations. For example: It only returns the first match it finds, even if there are hundreds of ...

VLOOKUP is a formula that allows you to “look up” certain data and retrieve it into another table, by row. This function can be especially useful when you have a well-structured table with information ...

VLOOKUP 201: The John Smith problem and going left After you use VLOOKUP enough, you’ll encounter its limitations. For example: It only returns the first match it finds, even if there are hundreds of ...

Formula details: The choice of VLOOKUP shows the table is organized vertically. Lookup_value = F5 commands Excel to look up the age of the asset (six years) in the first column of the table.

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

Suppose you are a project manager using Excel to track your team’s tasks. You have created a database with columns like Tasks, Assignee, Status, and Due Date. Now you want to ch ...