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What is VLOOKUP in Excel?
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What is VLOOKUP in Excel?
VLOOKUP stands for ‘Vertical Lookup’. It is a function that makes Excel search for a certain value in a column (the so called ‘table array’), in order to return a value from a different column in the same row.
What is the use of VLOOKUP in Excel with examples?
The VLOOKUP function in Excel performs a case-insensitive lookup. For example, the VLOOKUP function below looks up MIA (cell G2) in the leftmost column of the table. Explanation: the VLOOKUP function is case-insensitive so it looks up MIA or Mia or mia or miA, etc.