Tutorial: How to use Excel vlookup with Examples and Samples

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:44:18 +0000

I have been working on excel for the last 6 month for my official data analysis and I have come across many new things which make things much simpler. Of course, these things are not new to many people but for newbies like me, it’s exciting to find many such useful functions integrated in the excel itself. There are lots of useful functions in excel and one very powerful one is the Excel VLookUp function. It’s so easy and so useful once you know what you are doing.

Okay, let’s see what VLookUp is and how it works. Below is the VLookUp definition from Microsoft.

Searches for a value in the leftmost column of a table, and then returns a value in the same row from a column you specify in the table. Use VLOOKUP instead of HLOOKUP when your comparison values are located in a column to the left of the data you want to find.

The V in VLOOKUP stands for “Vertical.”

The Syntax to Microsoft Excel VLookUp is given below:

VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,range_lookup)

You can see below the step by step process to apply vLookup to any cell in excel. Please download the full steps-by-step tutorial with a sample excel file Here.

VLookUp Intro:

Here we are going to look up for the empty fields in the destination table from the source table for corresponding rows.

How it works (partial):

You can download the Full Tutorial, along with the sample file Here.

And if you have any question, just let me know. Cheers.

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Tutorial: How to use Excel vlookup with Examples and Samples