Does Vlookup Work with Percentages?

A lookup table shows the minimum score for each letter grade, and on the report card, the VLookup function is used to change percentages to letter grades.

How do you do a VLOOKUP in Excel with percentages?

Press on the "Evaluate" button to see the next step in the calculation, press with left mouse button on OK when done.
  1. Step 1 - Identify the relative position of category in array. MATCH(F11,{"A","B"},0) ...
  2. Step 2 - Choose cell range. ...
  3. Step 3 - Use cell range in VLOOKUP function and return corresponding discount percentage.

Why you should never use VLOOKUP?

It can not lookup and return a value which is to the left of the lookup value. It works only with data which is arranged vertically. VLOOKUP would give a wrong result if you add/delete a new column in your data (as the column number value now refers to the wrong column).

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