Excel’s VLOOKUP may seem tricky, but with practice, you'll master it easily. The formula lets you search for a value in a ...

Excel spreadsheets are a daunting affair for many. And indeed, when you are confronting dozens of rows and columns comprising hundreds if not thousands of cells filled with all sorts of data, it's ...

To do this, I will type the following formula into cell H2: =XLOOKUP(H1,B2:B12,A2:A12,"Invalid name",0,1) In this case, cell H1 contains the value Excel needs to look up (Mary), B2 to B12 is where ...