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The general goal is to search through a cell for one of several specified values and return the first match found if one exists. The worksheet includes a list of colors in the range E5:E11 (which is named list) and a series of short sentences in the range B5:B16. The task is...Read more

Introduction

A key limitation of VLOOKUP is it can only look up values to the right. In other words, the column with lookup values must be to the left of the values you want to retrieve with VLOOKUP. As a result, with standard...Read more

In the example shown, the goal is to calculate the maximum difference between the "High" values in column C and the "Low" values in column D. Because the difference between High and Low is not part of the data, the calculation must occur in the formula itself. This is a classic example of an...Read more

At a high level, this example is about finding a minimum value based on multiple criteria. To do that, we are using the MIN function together with two nested IF functions:

{=MIN(IF(...Read more

In this example, we have a simple set of data in B5:D16 that includes ID, Name, and Points. The goal is to generate a custom message for any name in the list by entering a valid ID in cell G5. The message uses the name from column C and the points in column D like this:

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In this example, the goal is to assign points based on a ranked score. The scores to rank are in column C, and the calculated Rank is in column D. Points are awarded based on the table in G5:H10. Both tblData (B5:E15) and tblPoints (G5:H10) are...Read more

In this example, the goal is to use VLOOKUP to retrieve the price for a given item based on three criteria: name, size, and color, which are entered in H5:H7. For example, for a Blue Medium T-shirt, VLOOKUP should return $16.00.

The VLOOKUP function...Read more

This formula relies on the FILTER function to retrieve data based on a logical test built with simple expressions and boolean logic:

(D5:D14="red")+(D5:D14="blue")
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In this example, the goal is to perform a case-sensitive lookup on Color with VLOOKUP. In other words, a lookup value of "RED" must return a different result from a lookup value of "Red". This presents several challenges. First, Excel is not case-sensitive by default...Read more

This formula relies on the FILTER function to retrieve data based on a logical test. The array argument is provided as B5:D15, which contains all of the data without headers. The include argument is...Read more

The key to this formula is the array or TRUE and FALSE values constructed with this expression:

LEFT(code,1)<>"N"

Here, each value in the named range "code" is evaluated with the logical test "...Read more

In this example, VLOOKUP is configured to look up 1000 invoice numbers in a table that contains 1 million invoices. The catch is that not all of the 1000 invoice numbers exist in the source data. In fact, most of the invoice numbers do not appear in column B. This means we need to...Read more

This formula depends on a TRUE or FALSE result from a logical test, where FALSE represents the value you are looking for. In the example, the logical test is data="red", entered as the lookup_array argument in the MATCH function:

=MATCH(FALSE,data="red",0...Read more

This is a more advanced formula. For basics, see How to use INDEX and MATCH.

Normally, an INDEX MATCH formula is configured with MATCH set to look through a one-column range and provide a match based on given criteria. Without concatenating values...Read more

The LOOKUP function assumes data is sorted, and always does an approximate match. If the lookup value is greater than all values in the lookup array, default behavior is to "fall back" to the previous value. This formula exploits this behavior by creating an array that contains only 1s and...Read more