Vlookup The super time saver

Everyone knows about excel and it's usefulness in each and every part of business that how important is excel is. from basic plus minus to high degree of calculation excel can do in just seconds. Excel is a Deep ocean the deeper you want to go the deep you will go inside it, excel is a never ending ocean.Excel have a function which is called vlookup it is an extremely Useful function of excel, this function performs a vertical lookup by searching for a value in the first column of a table and returning the value in the same row in the index_number position.

The VLOOKUP function is a built-in function in Excel that is categorized as a Lookup/Reference Function. It can be used as a worksheet function (WS) in Excel. As a worksheet function, the VLOOKUP function can be entered as part of a formula in a cell of a worksheet.

The VLOOKUP function is actually quite easy to use once you understand how it works! If you want to follow along with this tutorial, download the example spreadsheet.

The formula looks like this :

VLOOKUP( value, table, index_number, [approximate_match] )

Parameters or Arguments

value

The value to search for in the first column of the table.

table

Two or more columns of data that is sorted in ascending order.

index_number

The column number in table from which the matching value must be returned. The first column is 1.

approximate_match

Optional. Enter FALSE to find an exact match. Enter TRUE to find an approximate match. If this parameter is omitted, TRUE is the default.

Returns

The VLOOKUP function returns any datatype such as a string, numeric, date, etc.
If you specify FALSE for the approximate_match parameter and no exact match is found, then the VLOOKUP function will return #N/A.
If you specify TRUE for the approximate_match parameter and no exact match is found, then the next smaller value is returned.
If index_number is less than 1, the VLOOKUP function will return #VALUE!.
If index_number is greater than the number of columns in table, the VLOOKUP function will return #REF!.