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LoginIn our example we have a list of fruits, the amount in stock and the current price. In this case it is range A2:C10 :. In this example we only have a small list of fruits, but imagine you have a long list of data and you wish to use a certain value elsewhere in your spreadsheet. This is when the approximate match might be useful. The flexibility Excel offers an end user almost guarantees that its approval ratings clearly outpace any ERP. People love how easy it is to get started in Excel, how flexible it is, and how widely known the tool is. While this is all true, the tool can also be frustrating sometimes.
This allows you to take any value entered, find it in a data range, then return a value or information from that same data range without having to scroll through a list. LOOKUP and related functions are commonly used for business analytics in Excel as a way of slicing and dicing data for analysis. We also cover this topic in our Excel training courses. Our downloadable workbook illustrates these concepts — see links at the top or bottom of this page.
Published: September 06, Coordinating a massive amount of data in Microsoft Excel is a time-consuming headache. Thankfully, you don't have to. Here's the simple explanation: The VLOOKUP function searches for a specific value in your data, and once it identifies that value, it can find — and display — some other piece of information that's associated with that value. What's more, it is incredibly powerful, and is definitely something you want to have in your arsenal of analytical weapons.
You'll learn how to Vlookup from another sheet and different workbook, search with wildcards, and a lot more. This article begins a series covering VLOOKUP, one of the most useful Excel functions and at the same time one of the most intricate and least understood. We will try to explain the basics in a very plain language to make the learning curve for an inexperienced user as easy as possible. To begin with, it is an Excel function : What does it do?
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