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Syntax: Lookup and Reference Functions

This document provides instructions on how to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to look up values from a table. VLOOKUP searches for a value in the leftmost column of a table and returns a value from the same row of a specified column. The key aspects are that the lookup value must be to the left of the return value, and VLOOKUP takes arguments for the lookup value, table range, column index number of the return value, and whether an exact or approximate match is required.

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Syntax: Lookup and Reference Functions

This document provides instructions on how to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to look up values from a table. VLOOKUP searches for a value in the leftmost column of a table and returns a value from the same row of a specified column. The key aspects are that the lookup value must be to the left of the return value, and VLOOKUP takes arguments for the lookup value, table range, column index number of the return value, and whether an exact or approximate match is required.

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Use VLOOKUP, one of the lookup and reference

functions, when you need to find things in a


table or a range by row. For example, look up an
employee's last name by her employee number,
or find her phone number by looking up her last
name (just like a telephone book).
This video is part of a training course
called VLOOKUP: When and how to use it.
TIP: The secret to VLOOKUP is to organize your

data so that the value you look up (employees


last name) is to the left of the return value you
want to find (employees phone number).

Syntax
VLOOKUP (lookup_value, table_array,
col_index_num, [range_lookup])
For example:

=VLOOKUP(105,A2:C7,2,TRUE)

=VLOOKUP("Fontana",B2:E7,2,FALSE)

Argument name

Description

lookup_value

The value you want to look up.

Argument name

Description

(required)

you want to look up must be in


column of the range of cells yo
in table-array .

For example, if table-array spa


B2:D7, then your lookup_value
column B. See the graphic
below. Lookup_value can be a
reference to a cell.
table_array
(required)

The range of cells in which the


will search for the lookup_value
return value.

The first column in the cell ran


contain the lookup_value (for e
Last Name in the picture below
range also needs to include the
value (for example, First Name
graphic below) you want to find

Learn how to select ranges in a


col_index_num
(required)

The column number (starting w


left-most column of table-array

Argument name

Description
contains the return value.

range_lookup (option A logical value that specifies w


al)
want VLOOKUP to find an exac
an approximate match:

TRUE assumes the first column in the table


numerically or alphabetically, and will then search
value. This is the default method if you d

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