Microsoft Excel – Learn & Share http://zulkifliishak.com A blog where I learn and Share Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:36:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 149499638 How to use excel VLOOKUP function http://zulkifliishak.com/how-to-use-excel-vlookup-function/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 18:14:55 +0000 http://zulkifliishak.com/?p=68 Excel VLOOKUP is a very useful function to retrieve data from table rows. We lookup function easily return the data in a table  or a range by row. As example, to lookup the age of a person. 

Excel VLOOKUP formula


Syntax : VLOOKUP (value, table, col_index, [range_lookup])

  • Value : The value to search from first column of a table
  • Table : Table range
  • col_index : which column of the table to retrieve the data.
  • range_lookup : False – Exact Match/True approximate match

The syntax can be summarized as as VLOOKUP(Value to look up, table range to lookup the value, table column number to return the value,FALSE/TRUE)

Example 

example Excel VLOOKUP 
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  • Value : C14 – the cell to write the Name 
  • Table :B3:E6 the range of the table from B2 until E6.
  • col_index : 2 , the second column of the table.
  • range_lookup : False – Exact Match
  • Syntax : VLOOKUP(C14,B2:E6,2,FALSE)
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