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Excel Lookup Notes:part 1

Lookup functions allow users to retrieve values from within tables or ranges based on certain criteria. The most common lookup functions are VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH. VLOOKUP looks up values vertically and returns a value from a column index number. HLOOKUP looks up values horizontally. INDEX returns the value from a row and column number. MATCH returns the position of a lookup value within a range.

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Excel Lookup Notes:part 1

Lookup functions allow users to retrieve values from within tables or ranges based on certain criteria. The most common lookup functions are VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH. VLOOKUP looks up values vertically and returns a value from a column index number. HLOOKUP looks up values horizontally. INDEX returns the value from a row and column number. MATCH returns the position of a lookup value within a range.

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lookup functions

A simple illustration of a lookup is a dictionary, we lookup a word (called lookup value in excel's
language) in a dictionary page (called the table array) and find the meaning next to the word (this
meaning is what we want delivered to us).Lookup basically means retrieving a value based on some
condition and delivering that value to the appropriate cell.

Following are a few terms common to most lookup functions:

lookup value what we are looking up for


table array where we are looking it up
column/row
index number which column/row we want the answer from

Following are the most commonly used lookup functions:


Function name synatx Example

CHOOSE(2,"jan","feb","
choose CHOOSE(index_num,value1,value2,...) mar") gives the answer feb
because it chooses the second
entry in the list provided
MATCH(E10,B5:B8,0)
looks up for the content in cell
E10 in the range of cells from
match MATCH(lookup_value,lookup_array,match_type) B5 to B8 and returns the row
number in which E10 is
found,0 is used for an exact
match
INDEX(A2:B3,2,2) returns
the content of the '2'nd row
index INDEX(array,row_num,column_num)
and '2'nd column in the cell
range from A2 to B3
VLOOKUP(1,A2:C10,3,T
RUE) looks up vertically for
'1' in the column A2:A10 (in
VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,ra
vlookup nge_lookup) the table A2:C10)and once it
finds it ,returns the
corresponding content in the
'3'rd column. TRUE signifies
approximate match.
HLOOKUP(1,C85:H86,2,
0) looks horizontally for '1' in
the row C85:H85(in the table
C85:H86) and once it finds it,
returns the corresponding
HLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,row_index_n
hlookup content in the '2'nd row.0
um,range_lookup)
means false and signifies an
exact match(meaning that
excel would look up for exactly
'1' and not anything lesser
than it )
LOOKUP(5,A2:A6,B2:B6
) will lookup for '5' in column
A2:A6 and return the
LOOKUP(lookup_value,lookup_vector,result corresponding item from
lookup _vector) column B2:B6.for e.g., if it
finds 5 in cell A4 it would
return content from B4 as the
answer.

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