Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Simple VLookup

This function is used to look-up a value in a specific column and return any corresponding value.

Syntax :

=VLOOKUP(value to look for, range to look in, number of column of to return, whether exact match)

For Example:

=VLOOKUP(A1,D:E,2,FALSE)

This will search for value in A1 in column D and will return the corresponding value in column E.

VLOOKUP can also be used to compare two columns. This function can be applied to a column with more values so that it returns #N/A in the values for which it doesn't find a match for.

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