many people still stay with VLOOKUP, firstly, because it's simpler and, secondly, because they do not fully understand all benefits of using the INDEX MATCH formula in Excel. Without such understanding no one is willing to invest their time to...
In my previous Excel VLOOKUP formula tutorial I mentioned that there are two ways you can use a VLOOKUP but most people know one way or the other, and only a few know both.As promised here’s the second way to use it, and I call it the Sorted List version as it relies on the ...
Example 1 – Getting Data to Merge Two Equivalent Tables Using the VLOOKUP Function in Excel Step 1 Enter the following formula in any adjacent cell of the larger Table. =VLOOKUP([@[Employee ID]],Salary7[#All],COLUMN()-3,FALSE) Step 2 Press ENTER to display the output. As data is fo...
Excel is a very powerful tool for performing operations on data. In today’s world, every organization works on data. For retrieving insights from data, it is important that the data is organized. Excel provides various functions to perform these operations on data. VLOOKUP is one of those fu...
The more advanced versions of the LOOKUP function are HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP. Formula (Vector) There are two forms of Lookup: Vector and Array. The vector form of the LOOKUP function will search one row or one column of data for a specified value and then get the data from the same positio...
Here’s the updated result. Using IF and ISNA with VLOOKUP Function to Handle the #N/A Error: =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B5,TeamA!B5:D20,1,FALSE)),"Not Matched", "Matched") Formula Breakdown: ISNA returns a TRUE value if its argument is a N/A error, which is then used for the IF funct...
=LOOKUP(VLOOKUP(E2, $A$2:$C$7, 3, FALSE), {"c";"d";"t"}, {"Completed";"Development";"Testing"}) As demonstrated in the screenshot below, the formula retrieves the project status from the lookup table and replaces an abbreviation with the corresponding word: ...
3. Advanced VLOOKUP examples 3.1 Two-way lookup with VLOOKUP function (VLOOKUP in row and column) 3.2 VLOOKUP matching value based on two or more criteria By using formulas | By using a smart feature - Kutools 3.3 VLOOKUP to return multiple matching values with one or more conditions Ret...
Return all matching values without duplicates into one cell If you want to return all matching values based on the lookup data without duplicates, the below formula may help you. Please copy and paste the following formula into a blank cell, then press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys togethe...
1. The VLOOKUP function below looks up the value 85 (first argument) in the leftmost column of the red table (second argument). There's just one problem. There's no value 85 in the first column. 2. Fortunately, the Boolean TRUE (fourth argument) tells the VLOOKUP function to return an...