Excel DGET Function Solves 2 of Your VLOOKUP Problems
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It's time to explore an underutilized yet powerful formula: the DGET function. Perfect for solving complex LOOKUP problems that VLOOKUP can't handle, DGET allows for searching based on multiple conditions and looking up values to the left of the LOOKUP range.
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✨ Key Highlights:
▪️ Solving Multiple Condition Lookups: Learn how DGET overcomes VLOOKUP limitations by enabling searches based on multiple criteria.
▪️ Left Lookups: Discover how to use DGET for retrieving values to the left of the LOOKUP range, a task challenging for traditional LOOKUP functions.
▪️ Practical Examples: Follow real-world scenarios to understand how to implement DGET in various situations, like finding division and department names based on specific criteria.
▪️ Dynamic and Flexible Filtering: See how DGET can dynamically filter data and adapt to approximate matches for versatile data analysis.
▪️ Understanding Limitations: Get to know the potential drawbacks of DGET, such as handling duplicates and limitations in applying the formula to multiple cells.
Excel DGET Function is one of Excel's "forgotten" database functions that can do a Left lookup (unlike VLOOKUP) and ALSO easily look for multiple criteria.
One limitation of DGET is that you can't apply it to multiple cells. Basically you can't pull down the formula to lookup different values. If that's something you need, then you'll need to use INDEX MATCH, VLOOKUP, Excel FILTER function or FILTER feature or XLOOKUP. Check out the links under Related Videos below to find these videos.
00:00 Excel DGET Function
01:44 Excel DGET Explained
06:03 DGET With Approximate Match
06:28 DGET With OR & AND Conditions
08:18 DGET With Multiple Criteria
Excel DGET disadvantages:
1. DGET formula can't be pulled down - you'll need to include the header for each lookup value
2. DGET returns an error (#Num error - 7:25) if there are duplicate lookup values in the range (as opposed to VLOOKUP or Index & Match which return the first match).
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As always a very useful and cristal clear video, many thanks !
Another option for multiple criteria is to use Xlookup with concatenate criteria and lookup on concatenate columns. It works well but request more memory to calculate the results (particularly when calculating on a big dataset)
Thanks Leila. Most enjoyable. Sometimes the old formulas need an introduction to a modern audience. Love to see what you can do with the "N" Formula :-)
Very useful video, your solutions give a professional touch to each worksheet
Thanks Leila for this amazing function, will definitely use it
Thanks for covering DGET. Ostensibly it works like LOOKUP function but far more easy to follow. Thanks again:)
My pleasure Sachin :)
I really enjoy your excel tutorials. I am two years retired from a job where I used excel extensively, but I still enjoy writing formulas for personal spreadsheets. Thank you for sharing you excel skills.
Hi Leila. Thanks for the great DGET formula examples! Good to know how this function works :)) Thumbs up!!
Wow, thanks for inspiring and solving an issue I had just last week. Can't wait to get to work and implement this!
Hope it will be useful.
Thx Leila. Very clear. I see the #num as both a con as you say and a also as a pro, as getting the first occurrence of duplicates not knowing there are others can lead to errors in interpretation and decisions.
Great video as always. Thank you very much for your time and knowledge.
It's great. I was looking for such videos. Now I can solve so many problems. Thanks Leila.
Thanks Leila. An oldie but a goodie.
Leila, thank you so much for being such an amazing teacher of Excel. If I knew just 1% of what you know as well as you know it I would know a thousand times more about Excel than I do. Thank you again and again.
All your videos worth watching and thumbs up.
Thank you.
Thank you so much @Leila, You are the best :-)
Always looking forward to learning something new in excel
You're welcome 🙂 =XLOOKUP(1,[Lookup Range]=[Criteria])*([Lookup Range]=[Lookup Criteria], [Return Range]
Nice addition for the index and match combo funtion is that match() works for multiple matche per row too.
You could youse the multiple matches like (A1="x")*(B1="x") etc.
Excel could take up some long processing time with large tables though.
Mine took around 30 to 40 minutes for a table with 7000 rows and 3 matches acros.
This is great, You present it very nicely. Thank you!
Clean and simple for us beginners, thank you.
Very well explained, as always! Thanks Leah . . .
Don't think I stop watching your videos, DGET, this function is so magical 😍
Oh, there you are. I thought you had forgotten me :)
شكراً!
!This looks like it could be a bit easier for me to use than index/match in some situations! Thanks again
Just what I was looking for, thanks
Hi Leila! I like your excel videos ....alot.. I have learnt many things because of you... thanks alot
Thanks. Following your videos and I am learning so much.
Thank you very much Leila for showing this forgotten function, it is very useful and compatible with old versions of Excel :)
My pleasure. Glad it's useful.
We've been waiting for this. But still a fan of Index-Match. 😁
Both have their place :)
Same here
Ditto, but this was way cool
True. Didn't even find a case to use this with justice nor does this seems to offer any
I'm using & for complex criteria.
I love you please never stop making videos
Thank you for the tutorial. Very informative.
Wonderful as always. thanks
Quite informative as always, thanks! 😃👌
Thanks for given your contribution
This is great function! Thanks for showing it to us Leila! I will no longer need to count columns for Vlookup in my files with 200 columns! I use Index-Match often to avoid it, and Dget seems to be even more elegant solution for many situations.
problem is you can only lookup 1 row with DGET, so you will still have to use index match
You don't need to count columns for vlookup. It shows the current column count in the tooltip at the lower right part of your selection.
Thank you very much, Leila! I congratulate you for your high quality in the transmission of knowledge. By the way, I've tried DGET with Tables, and found to my amazement and sadness that it doesn't work.
@Leila I see you bring an old, weel-worn excel to life = good job, merci :)
Gotta respect the Goldies :)
Great. I have decided not to miss your new video tutorial....because it's of great help in my daily routine/work. Many thanks Ms. Leila G.
Very good decision :) Glad the tutorials are helpful.
Great video, thanks!
you had long time to publish this video I appreciate that. Thanks that was wonderful mum..
Respect
Glad you like it.
Thanks again. You are wonderful. Great job.
Thanks, nice concept
I don't know about this formula. Thank u so much for increasing my knowledge
Very good tutorial as always! :)
Good stuff. Really like your channel!
This is the first time i know about this function, thankss 😊
Excellent explanation.
Ur really great... Iam 13 yrs working has wfm... I never came across such a easy and important formula
Awesome video... Easy to understand.
best teacher..............and teaching style
Thank you. For all your support
You are the best woman in the world.
Great and very useful information...thanks for knowledge sharing....
Learning a lot from your tutorials. Easy to understand...Way to go...
That's great. Thanks for the feedback.
Awesome. No more working with array formulas. Thanks
You are an amazing teacher
Thank you for this video Leila.
Awesome, i always google when it comes to Excel formulas :D
Thank you so much for such amazing video 😊
Very useful tool...Thanks
I was in a rush and last time i did this i did a 6 way repeating if statement. Thanks for sharing its much simpler this way than that and INDEX matching :D
Glad it's helpful. DGET definitely has its advantages in certain situations.
I salute your teaching skill...
Great explanantion!
Nice laptop by the way (for a Office user geek xD)
Haha. Gamer laptops are great for video editing too :)
Really Nice look..and nice teaching .
Yours technique way is simple and easy. User friendly.
going old school! Thanks for the DGET example :-)
Totally! Bringing out the classics :)
Thank you for the great function. just to make something right. I have tried using the function with a table instead of range selection and it is not working. the reason that I figured out is that typing the table name makes it selected without the headers. in order to use it as a full table, you need to refer it as =DGET(Table1[#All],1,J4:J5)
Good knowledge for me!
I love all ur videos
Great video! Thanks a lot! it was usefull!
Fantastic..thq
Your teaching of excel is really lovely and impacting. Please I want you to produce a video that will teach how to prepare school time table that will be high flexible.
With the following features:
1. A teacher possibly taking more than 1 subject.
2. A class possibly having 2 subjects at the same periods.
3. Each subject having its own no of periods per week.
4. Possibility of science subjects in science laboratory, with consideration that two/three classes may be sharing the same laboratory.
And other possible features.
I will appreciate it if you can work on it. Thanks.
Awesome function
The error at 8:17 makes perfect sense as one person would be assigned multiple departments or divisions, and which resulting values should the DGET function then return? The error lies in the representation of the relations in the data table. The good, old "crap in, crap out" principle.
Thank you Leila!
Because of you today i able to learn new funcation which i dont know before thanks
Brilliant. I never knew that.
Awesome video. Thank you
Nice lesson!
Thanks! 😃
Good explanation
You teach so good
Thank you so much from Tehran
Very useful formula
Woo amazing... thank you so much Mam....
Genius! Hands down genius.
Another great video. I think it would be better for database to use Offset function. That way it is dynamic. For list it could be use Sort, Offset and Unique combination but not everbody has Unique function.
Marvelous work madam...
Thank you
You are a great professor Leila I love your channel!.Thank you for the excellent tip.^_^
Thank you! 😃
Very useful...
nice information this thank you very much ,,,,,,
Thank you.
That's a wonderful function, but I feel, LOOKUP is still a better alternative. You always ROCK Leila :)
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Thanks for sharing
Never used DGET before. I'll definitely have to experiment with it more.
Great Video Leila. Very Interesting. :) :)
Interesting!
Gonna test it soonish. I wonder if the criteria can be made from some composite range maybe with index((...,...),0) around it. Maybe it was {...,...} to append ranged? If that works you can have separate headers and values in formula.
Since I'm using Power BI a lot I recommend turning everything that is a table into actual tables. Power Query is so nice to get from raw data source to proper data, might be good practice so all steps are repeatable.
Looking back excel it seems very error prone and encourages complex tinkering that isn't easy to document or for colleagues to use. Using queries and the data model might help.
Happy new year Leila!⛄️
Same to you Vijay!
Thanks dear
Really great 😍😍😍
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