Excel advanced vlookup tutorial. In this video i explain everything you need to know to get started with vlookup for excel. For me this milestone actually occurred in 2004 during an internship at microsoft in the companys commercial operations division. In this vlookup tutorial you will find a number of advanced formula examples that demonstrate how to look up with multiple criteria use two vlookup functions in one formula dynamically pull data from different sheets and more. Lets take a simple example here to understand when to use vlookup in excel.
Otherwise vlookup might return an incorrect or unexpected value. Vlookup lookupvalue tablearray colindexnum rangelookup. Download the excel file. 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.
This may even help you to create a dynamic dashboard. If you like this video heres my entire playlist of excel tutorials. Use absolute references for rangelookup as it allows you to fill down a formula so that it always looks at the same exact lookup range. Below is the image of advance vlookup refer to image 1.
In this article you will learn how you can use vlookup to solve the problem in the advance way. When searching number or date values ensure that the data in the first column of tablearray is not stored as text values. The vlookup function is one of the most frequently used functions in all of excel. In depth overview of the vlookup syntax.