As you use Microsoft Excel more and more, you'll find that the VLOOKUP function is a very popular tool for dealing with large Excel directories or databases. It allows the user to quickly find ...

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that can ...

The VLOOKUP function in Excel is an incredibly powerful and versatile tool for data retrieval and analysis. It allows you to efficiently search for a specific value in one column of a table and return ...

The VLOOKUP function in Microsoft Excel literally means vertical lookup. It’s a search function for querying values in the cell of a column. This function searches for the data relative to the entries ...

If your lookup range and lookup value are kept in different Excel workbooks, then don’t worry about it because VLOOKUP can get things done with ease. Now, if you wish to VLOOKUP workbooks via Excel ...

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 ...

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 tells ...

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

A little from column A, a little from column B: XLOOKUP is the new, easier way to retrieve information across Excel spreadsheets. If you’re working on your accounts and you need to convert all your ...

VLOOKUP, or Vertical Lookup, is a powerful function in Excel that allows you to search for specific data in a column and return a value from a different column in the same row. Here’s a concise guide ...