How to Use VLOOKUP in Excel (free file included)
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Excel VLOOKUP is one of the most essential functions in Excel. In this tutorial for beginners you'll learn how to properly use Excel VLOOKUP without mistakes. You’ll learn how to quickly find information from different sheets, get exact or closest matches, and troubleshoot common errors. VLOOKUP Excel saves you time and reduces mistakes by automating data searches across your spreadsheets.
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00:00 VLOOKUP Excel
00:50 How to Do a VLOOKUP Formula
05:29 VLOOKUP Across Sheets
07:09 VLOOKUP Approximate Match
09:14 VLOOKUP Not Working
11:29 NA Error in VLOOKUP
12:18 Get rid of NA Error in VLOOKUP
14:31 XLOOKUP Excel
We start with the basics: how to do a VLOOKUP to find related information, like a customer’s profession from another dataset. You’ll learn how to set up your data range correctly and discover the importance of fixing the table array to avoid shifting ranges when copying formulas. This practical VLOOKUP example shows you the essentials of how to use VLOOKUP effectively.
We also dive into advanced VLOOKUP techniques, including how to use VLOOKUP across different sheets, how to find exact matches with the FALSE parameter, and how to handle approximate matches efficiently. Plus, we tackle common VLOOKUP errors and show you how to correct them using simple adjustments and functions like TRIM and IFNA.
By the end of this video, you'll be equipped to use the VLOOKUP formula confidently. You’ll understand why it’s a go-to tool for Excel users seeking to streamline their data analysis tasks.
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You are always so concise and professional!
Really appreciate how you broke down the importance of using 'FALSE' for exact matches in VLOOKUP. It’s one of those things you don’t realize the impact of until you get those frustrating errors.
Hmmm, finally the "Thursday" video back after long time! Thanks Leila! 🙂
You explained it in your unique style making it easy to understand by anyone. While I "knew" most of it, I did pick up a "new" thing or two for sure! Keep those coming...
This for tuning in, Vijay! I'm taking it a bit slower these days. 😁
Years using vlookup and still you can teach something new , that approximate function really blows my mind, thanks a lot Leila, you are The best
Glad it was helpful!
All one needs to know to use VLOOKUP correctly. Thanks Leila for this quality presentation.
Feels like we are going back in time...
I thought this was an old video...
Surprised to see it was posted 4 hours ago
haha yes. It's a new upload. Even though I've exclusively switched to XLOOKUP, I realized there are many in this world that don't have access to XLOOKUP and still need to use VLOOKUP but struggle to work with it. My old videos are outdated and don't cover multiple aspects so I wanted a more comprehensive video to share.
Yes many times we have to work with vlookup... I switched to xlookup fully last year only because I used to write formulas for others who didn't have access to xlookup...
But after switching to xlookup it's hard to go back to vlookup...
After so many years using Excel, I thought I knew the VLOOKUP function... there's always something new one can learn.
Great to hear!
Thank you Leila. You are indeed a great teacher. I have never gotten VLookup right all my career no matter how many demos I've watched. Thanks a million.
You're very welcome! I hope this video was helpful.
Never thought of using Trim in the lookup value. Thanks!
Thank you, your lessons is probably the most easy to understand on TH-cam, thank you so much ♥
The lighting and camera quality has improved a lot. Good job
Nicely explained and a great reminder of the basics of this function which also supports the principal understanding of how Excel functions typically work. Judging some of the complaining comments tells me that even VLOOKUP is way too complex for them.
As clear as ever! And as understandable as ever for a French person!
Trim & IfNa are the new takeaways for me. Thank you Leila.
This is an amazing video! I am in awe of how you can be so concise and so thorough at the same time. Your explanations not only help me with VLOOKUP, but also with understanding better how Excel formulas work in general. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
You are fantastic! Thank you so much, your lessons are the most precise and I was able to understand this function only because of your approach. Fantastic!❤
Great to hear!
Learnt a lot from you videos, Thanks. ❤
Thank you so much for this amazing video.
Super nicely explained all the issues faced by the user using Vlookup.
Always great, using Trim in the Vlookup function is what I was missing, thanks
Useful tips
Very informative ❤❤
Thanks for detailed Video about Vlookup and its Errors
Oh I soooooo don’t miss V-LKup 😊. Very nice video, thanks!
Thanks! 😃
Thank you. Very valuable content, as always.
Your vids always so informative. Thanks. I've been using vlookup for years, but I learned from this vid the use of 0/1 instead of FALSE/TRUE, and that trim function usage will defo help in huge database.
Thanks again ...
Thank you Leila, great topic as always
Glad you liked it!
PRETTY useful function that I did now about and that I haven’t needed to use, but it does save a lot of time when searching and transferring data from one cell to another, but then again if the function is used incorrectly, then it can mess all the data completely. Thanks! 😺🥰🙋♀️⭐️💎
This is an interesting solution, thanks.
Nice one Leila! The common errors and solutions at the end was very useful.
Thank you! 😃
Love this!
Leila, learnt a lot from you. Couldn’t get why you are making a video on such a basic topic
I know. My team convinced me that basic topics are important and we are getting many questions still on VLOOKUP. I didn't want to send people to my old videos because they're outdate, hence this video 🙂
Love all Your videos
Brilliant as usual Leila :) Honestly, I prefer to use the XLOOKUP rather than the VLOOKUP.
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Thank you so much for your training. Breaking it down into easy to understand steps like this helps us with ADHD. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Many Thanks Leila,
Whatever I know about Ms Excel just cause of your tricks.
Thanks again 🙏
Just a little wish from my side could you please start playlist for Ms Excel interview oriented questions and answers...
Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!
Thanks for video ❤
Very nice video & very beautifully hair cut, Love from Bharat
thank you so much!
Very well explained.❤
looking great Leila💙
Excellent
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Thanks for the share.
This is an excellent beginner explanation video, and I wish I had this type of video when I first learned VLookUp,
However, using the Trim function within the lookup is new to me.
Always learn something new from you.
Thank you very much for your great effort.
Thanks for tuning in!
Thanks 👍
Thanks as always. Simple and straight to the point. Could you kindly a vedio on how you records your vedios, tools used, the annotations etc.?
Your videos are awesome
Glad you like them!
@@LeilaGharani please make a video how can we make full accounts from voucher to Financial statements in Excel for SMEs.
Also suggest me that from where I can get free pre designed formats for detail budgets
One other error that might occur: If the lookup table has more than one item with the same content, in the column - the VLOOKUP function will return the first item it finds. For example a lookup table has name John Smith twice in the table column (as the company has two people with that name). Obviously better to search another field in the table that's more unique, like Employee ID etc. So sometimes for a large dataset it might be worth doing a quick pivot table to do a count of names - to spot if it repeats (or use COUNTIF)
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Great 👍
Amazing
It feels like going back to summer of 69 😂 after using xlookup and filter function, I have almost stopped using vlookup.
So did I 🙂 - but unfortunately the world still is filled with Excel files that have VLOOKUPs
@@LeilaGharani same video but for xlookup next 😉
Wonderful Magic
basic, but really important. nice
Excellent! Hope all vlookup problem will be solved.
I hope so too! Thanks for watching!
I couldnt get the space trick, but i surely know how to solve its problem... this vid didnt add to me anything new, but i had to say that the test parts in your video made me engaged.
It didnt add to me bcz i already saw many of your videos b4
Thanks alot, keep it up
Awesome! I have had errors like "spill" and "value". I will try with my file and see if I come right. Thank you so much.
If you have errors with #spill then it means you have XLOOKUP function. That's easier to work with than VLOOKUP. Check out my videos on that.
Hi Leila,
Thank you so much for this tutorial and we have missed VLookup function because of XLookup :)
I wanna add some comments about VLooup function.:
1- It can be searched the wanted valur from right to left by using Choose function. Some any cases, I'm using this function in Vlookup to seaech values by determining range sequance and Choose is allowing me to shift ranges in a table like (=Choose({2,1},Range1,Range2)
2- Is it possible to use wildcards in Vlookup function?
3-How can we do column numbet dynamic. As we know that when we insert a column between data range, this column number is changing.
4- Can we search multiple values in a range by using Vlook up?
5- Vlookup bring the first value and it is not allowing to bring the second value for same wanted value. How can we adjust it to extract multiple values which are ranged in a single column?
Step 1: Use XLOOKUP
Step 2: Finish
I use vlookup to identify new values in an export file that weren’t in the previous export file. I find that looking up a single column that contains the unique identifier is faster using vlookup as I can type the ending TAB 1 TAB 0 ENTER then filter for N/A results (ie new transactions). I don’t have to use the mouse again to select the second lookup range. But besides this single use case, I always use Xlookup these days
GR8 explanation, it was refreshing and enjoyed it. I use xlookup.
BTW, nice looking (new hair style?)!
Thanks! 😃
Excellent video thank you. I’m looking for a catering solution for the kitchen. Wedding Guests use Google forms to get dietary requirements and then add table number and the kitchen use Vlookup to get a list of who is on which table with dietary preferences.
Can you do a video on real life usage of HLOOKUP ? I am curious to know the real life usage of this function. Have been using spreadsheets for a long time, but yet to find a scenario when I would want to use this function.
Let’s call this a legacy video. xlookup is the way to go
Use Powe Query instead. Data tab, get data. You can set other Excel documents as data sources and do a lot more in a stable way
My wife is great with Excel but I am not. This channel is great! Thank you!
Great to hear!
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Once again ... uncannily timely ... wonderful to watch and learn with a mug of hot black coffee. But I think for my current need, XLookup is the way to go for me today.
Nonetheless, always a treat to have a Leila video on Thursday morning. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍
PS
How can Cooper STILL be employed? ... or ... haven't you gotten around to firing him yet?
Life is much easier for those with newer versions of Excel 😊 Many thanks for tuning in!
Yikes. Censoring comments. Interesting
Hi Leila, thanks much for the video. Your videos are always appreciated. I don't understand the first issue. Doesn't vlooup work off of the vertical position of "Sid?" I don't know how you would get the wrong answer from that example. Could you explain further please? Thank you.
Yes, but default match for VLOOKUP is approximate match - and for it to work correctly you need to have your lookup range - so the range "Sid" is in to be sorted in ascending order. Unfortunately that's just how Vlookup works. To make sure you look for an exact match you need to add the last FALSE in the formula. It would have been easier if Microsoft programmed the function so that default behavior is exact match - so it would find "Sid" no matter how the data was sorted, but unfortunately they didn't do that.
They did fix this for XLOOKUP so XLOOKUP by default doesn't care how the data is sorted and will find the right match.
Can You make a video about power automate in which how we can generate a predefined format as a Pdf or send same pdf as email attachment
Please exlain if the VLOOKUP function searches to the left with a negative column number argument? Without INDEX and MACH indoor function VLOOKUP. It is possible?
Hey Leila , very good video . I can do better editing in your videos which can help you to get more engagement in your videos . Pls lmk what do you think ?
I use 360, and after the XLookup, I have never use VLookup again, but before that, of course this was bread and butter )).
I am not sure if there are cases where V would be preferred to X.
Ultimate explain for Filter function
Thanks Leila, good video. Although to be honest, since XLOOKUP came out, I haven't looked back :)
I can imagine. 😊 Thanks for tuning in, Chris!
I use the function extensively.
I always name my ranges... much tidier and easier.
I often derive a concatenated key for my lookup value and similarly the range left column.
I would like to understand the excel "data model" and excel tables based on my knowledge of relational databases?
Great! yes, those are neat techniques for multiple lookups. The data model in Excel is also called Power Pivot. I have a few videos on that and a complete course on my site XelPlus.
Long time no see Leila
Hello - I'm taking it a bit slower these days. 😊
Please make video how to hundle customers data base, for example recall data for certain customer in a separate individual excel sheet depending to the customer number 😢
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In approximate match for table array range why didn't we take the whole table range, and we only took two columns -- grade and score columns 8:04 ?
I could use your assistance in my work? Could you provide some guidance?🙂🙏
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can this be done using the index and match functions(approximate part)?
Index Match can do it all 💪
I have an issue and want a solution. I have a chart like waves for prices of one company stock and I want to show on the chart only values of top unique value and down unique value for each wave I made a helper column and used the formula>> IF(AND(F4>F3,F4>C5),C4,"") but the problem there is a similar number at the top and down wave
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vlookup in the age of xlookup? had to check the date to make sure this isn't 1stApril
Yep. VLOOKUP has made a comeback due to popular request. Well, not popular request but people asking me about problems with their VLOOKUPs because they don't have access to XLOOKUP yet. I needed to make a more complete video than my older ones.
Why does it populate "head of procrastination" at 4:00 if it doesn't match? Is it because the "3" in the formula is read as "column 3 row 3" without the "false" ? Thank you in advance.
No, it's because the formula was missing the last argument: [range_lookup]. For an exact match, you need to add False (or 0). By default, VLOOKUP performs an approximate match if you don't include False or 0.
Naming the lookup table avoids the need to fix the values and can be found anywhere in the workbook.
How can I activate quickinfos on the menu bar on the MacBook version of excel? When I hover over a feature nothing is shown. 😭
My annoyance with excel is the regional notation, semicolons instead of commas, the vlookup having an entirely different name in Dutch and so on... When I use chatgpt to help me out, I have to remind it every time to change the notation.
(Sidebar, chatgpt is dumb... Didn't even manage to calculate a sum of 10 simple numbers without giving me an outrageously wrong number)
True, but VERT.ZOEKEN sounds so much better than VLOOKUP though. 😁
Just write a VBA function for your look-up needs!
Such a big limitation! that the value sought must be the first column in the table. That means you can’t have multiple VLOOKUP!
Plz we need this video for filter function
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/Eehk6PC0oGs/w-d-xo.html
I have always considered Microsoft's description of the "approximate match" to be misleading. When you use a VLOOKUP with the default value on the 4th parameter or with TRUE, the VLOOKUP assumes that the second parameter table is sorted and returns data from the first line where the first parameter would have fallen, if the table in the second parameter contained all possible solutions.
For example, if the second parameter table is sorted in $10 ($0,$10,$20) increments, with letters A, B, C ... etc. in the second column, a VLOOKUP(19.99,A1:B3,2,TRUE) will return a B, even though 19.99 is closer to $20, than to $10.
Don't know if anyone else has experienced this behavior in Excel before.
None of our employees are hired if they don't know vlookup
I have 2 columns, column one listing article numbers, column 2 lists the descriptions of the articles.
In a different sheet,I've used vlookup to pull up the descriptions when I write an article number. Sometimes I don't remember the article number and want to search by article description instead. How do I make it so that I can also choose to write the description instead, and obtain the article number without making a third sheet? (A cross-reference, i guess?)
If you have Office 365, you can do a left lookup with XLOOKUP. If you don't have this function, you can use Index match (I have videos on these too)
@@LeilaGharani many thanks. I'll look for them
Why have we gone back to Vup from Xup?