Vlookup Data In Excel. Vlookup works with data stored vertically with each column in a data set having a different purpose. This function works in any version of excel in windows and mac and also in google sheets.
In general we will get data in multiple worksheets and having all the information in the single sheets itself is not possible in 99 of the cases. The secret is to organize your data so that the value you look up is to the left of the value you want to find. When you need to find and extract a column of data from one table and place it in another use the vlookup function.
If you specify false for the approximate match parameter and no exact match is found then the vlookup function will return n a.
Vlookup performs the search in the first column and retrieves the info from whichever column you specify to the right. The formula looks up for the date in k3 cell in the table a1 h15. This feature of the vlookup function allows you to retrieve values even when you do not have an. The vlookup function returns result in any data type such as a string numeric date etc.