Going back to “VLOOKUP WEEK 2012” Mike ‘ExcelisFun’ Girvin and Bill ‘MrExcel’ Jelen look at the ‘LOOKUP’ Function. Taking cues from an email Bill received from Dan Bricklin [co-founder/inventor of VisiCalc] Bill argues the point that “=LOOKUP” is ambiguous in Microsoft Excel when the Data Set Table is ‘square’. Mike, on the other hand, thinks that “=LOOKUP” is not an ambiguous Function in that scenario; that it is intuitive and dynamic. Follow along with Episode #1550 to hear the debate and decide for yourself.
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From Tom Urtis of Atlas Programming Management, Inc. we have a full page of Lookup Tutorials including VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, Reverse LOOKUP, Min/Max LOOKUP and more. Thank you to Tom for creating this resource and allowing VLOOKUP WEEK 2012 to share it here – with all of you!
Microsoft Access MVP Crystal Long has Decalred that “VLOOKUP WEEK 2012” is not over yet and has decided to take VLOOKUP in another direction; today Crystal gives us a lesson in Converting VLOOKUP to Equations for MS Access!
“In my last VLOOKUP Week video, I showed you how to make a Distance Table using the VLOOKUP function in Excel. Now, we build the same thing in Access — will show you how to convert VLOOKUP equations to Access.” … To Read More Click Here to go to Crystal Long’s Lesson.
“My VLookup video calculates distance between coordinates using VLookup to get Latitude and Longitude from a table of Zip Codes, which is available as a free download on my website. There is also Concatenation, Errors (of course) and how to fix them, Relative and Absolute References, Range Names, Transposing, VBA, Table Styles, Formatting, and Conditional Formatting.” … To Read More Click Here to go to Crystal Long’s Lesson.
From XL-Dennis we have an entry that uses a VLOOKUP in Visual Basic [VB]!
“I thought it would be interesting to create a case and see how VLOOKUP can be part of VB-solutions. Actually, for several years ago I did similar solutions but with classic VB (VB6) for a customer. Imagine that we have a price list for our products. Because of the frequent price updates the company has decided to store it in a MS Excel workbook.” … To Read More Click Here to go to XL-Dennis’ Lesson.
Among other places around the Cyber-Globe, XL-Dennis may be found at The VSTO & .NET & Excel Blog
Today’s post from Tom Urtis involves finding the record that matches two criteria, such as Chevrolet in column A and 4-Door in column B. The solution involves INDEX, MATCH entered as an array formula, so this is ranked pretty high on the Excel spicy scale. Read the complete article here.
The Excel lookup function (LOOKUP, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP) are not case sensitive. For example, if you write a lookup function to look up the text rahim, the function considers any of the following a match: RAHIM, Rahim or RaHiM
Example:
1. Create the sheet given below:
The figure below shows a simple example. Range D2:D7 is named Range1, and range E2:E7 is named Range2. The word to be looked up appears in cell B1 (named Value). … To Read More Click Here to go to Rahim Zulfiqar Ali’s Lesson.
In this example, Javier is simulating (in PowerPivot) the output achieved through double lookups using VLOOKUP, OFFSET and MATCH.
One of those really great functions in the native Excel environment is OFFSET. In combination with other functions like MATCH, it can generate a type of ‘double lookup’ that can be really helpful when creating dynamic reports. For example, the table below describes a matrix defining a coordinate of units for each combination of ‘Band’ and ‘Group’. …To Read More Click Here to go to Javier Guillén’s Lesson
Check out this entry from Colin Legg: “Binary Searches With VLOOKUP”
“I went for a job interview about a year ago and the interviewer made a passing comment that he didn’t understand why anyone would ever pass TRUE into VLOOKUP’s range_lookup parameter. There are lots of cases when you might want to do this so I thought a few, nice examples would be a great way to get VLOOKUP week underway.” To Read More Click Here to go to Colin Legg’s Lesson.
PLEASE NOTE that Colin will continue to contribute Excel-lent articles this week for VLOOKUP WEEK 2012! Be sure to check them out at Colin Legg on WordPress
“It is often said that relationships in PowerPivot work in a similar way to VLOOKUPs. In reality, this is only partially true. If we examine the claim a bit closer we realize that Excel’s VLOOKUP function has a parameter in which it is possible to use an approximation when matching values against the lookup table…” To Read More Click Here to go to Javier Guillén’s Lesson
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