VLOOKUP, one of the most useful Microsoft Excel functions, is also available on Google Sheets. Here's how to use VLOOKUP to sift through Sheets data.

You can use VLOOKUP with Google Sheets similar to how the search function is used to find information in Excel.

To use VLOOKUP to find data in another Excel workbook requires multiple workbooks' relevant data. Once you have them, follow these steps.

How to Use VLOOKUP to Merge Files. The VLOOKUP spreadsheet function searches an array of cells for a specific value, and returns the value of a cell adjacent to the target data. For example, if a ...

Type the following formula into a cell in a different sheet in the workbook:=VLOOKUP ("example",Sheet2!F10:G20,2,FALSE) Replace "example" with the data that the function must search for in the CSV ...

Mastering Excel's index and match functions can streamline data analysis and improve efficiency.

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that ...