Here’s a fun topic! At the same time, this is a good opportunity to practice working with the LOOKUP function. Although, these days, people are talking much more about the XLOOKUP function I don’t see why, in this situation, we wouldn’t use its “older cousin”. Task: determine the zodiac sign of the person whose birthday is on the given date. This is achieved by searching the table that contains the range of dates that determine zodiac signs.
The business of most companies is impossible without keeping a certain level of inventory. Excess items in stock, if there is no economic justification for it, is a loss that is reflected, both through the cost of storage and through the amount of captured working capital. Excel has a very simple way to determine the quantity of items that are most in stock, as well as any additional information regarding those items.
Any more experienced user often uses the VLOOKUP function and is aware of its features and drawbacks. Therefore, the XLOOKUP function was created which can replace the VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP functions. It also supports wildcard characters used to replace multiple (*) or single character (?) which makes it very flexible and probably your choice for some future spreadsheet calculations.
Fuzzy Lookup is an Excel add-in created by a Microsoft development team, and can be used for advanced search and comparison of column values in tables. Why does this serve for? For example, in practice, it often happens that, when entering a name and surname, an error occurs or there is no one-way entry. Fuzzy Lookup allows you to compare the column based on the similarity and display the corresponding results in the new table.
In practice, it often happens that we have tables that are in a mutual relationship. Similar to the database, the value of a table column column may be a key by which we can access the columns of another table. In this text, we will discuss the functions used to search through data ranges. If you master them, it’s quite certain that this will quickly become one of your favorite Excel tools.