Benefits: Compatible with Excel 2019 and older versions. Unlike VLOOKUP, INDEX can have the return value to the left of the lookup value.

Which means all Excel lookups following this generalized form: LOOKUP( , , ..., ) VLOOKUP & INDEX/MATCH VLOOKUP against INDEX/MATCH. The core difference really comes down to the …

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The VLOOKUP function only looks for the lookup value in the leftmost column of the range. That makes the VLOOKUP function impractical when the information you want to return is left of the column …

In the final chapter, Multicolumn Lookup with VLOOKUP and SUMIFS, we’ll talk about how we can use these two functions together to perform a multicolumn lookup.

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