When Should I Use Vlookup?
When You Need to Find Information in a Large Spreadsheet, or You Are Always Looking for the Same Kind of Information, Use the Vlookup Function. Vlookup Works a...
When you need to find information in a large spreadsheet, or you are always looking for the same kind of information, use the VLOOKUP function. VLOOKUP works a lot like a phone book, where you start with the piece of data you know, like someone's name, in order to find out what you don't know, like their phone number.
What is VLOOKUP best used for?
VLOOKUP function is best suited for situations when you are looking for a matching data point in a column, and when the matching data point is found, you go to the right in that row and fetch a value from a cell which is a specified number of columns to the right.
Why would you use VLOOKUP instead of find?
Benefits of LOOKUP vs VLOOKUP: Users can search for data both vertically (columns) and horizontally (rows) Allows for left-to-right and right-to-left procedures (VLOOKUP is only left-to-right) Simpler to use and doesn't require selecting the entire table.
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