VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only ...

This is my simple way to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to find data fast. I walk through how I use VLOOKUP to look up ...

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Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to extract the right data from a massive spreadsheet, only to end up frustrated by errors or limitations? If so, you’re not alone.

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Excel appears to have limited support for mixed string and number types in a single column: As mentioned in #1755 Excel's support for this seems limited. It doesn't work at all in reverse order for ...

In Excel a "Vlookup," short for vertical lookup, is a formula used to return a value from a table of data. For example, you might want to add a column to a customer information spreadsheet that tells ...