Mike and Bill Debate: “=LOOKUP vs. @LOOKUP”

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 ‘Smitticisms’: “IF Statements and LOOKUPS”

 Smitty writes: “This article will focus on the appropriate use of IF statements, and also show you when it’s better to move into more robust formulas like LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP & INDEX/MATCH.”  …To Continue on with Smitty’s Tutorial click here

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Tom Urtis at Atlas Programming Management Inc: “LOOKUP Page”

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!

To view Tom’s Tutorials, Click Here to go to Tom Urtis’ LOOKUP Resource page

Tom Urtis: “Lookup First and Last Values Along Row”

“When you are faced with a table that is scattered with values among empty cells, you might need to know the first (left-most) or last (right-most) value in that row.

In the following picture, the first value in the row is returned by the formula
=INDEX(D2:H2,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX((D2:H2<>0),0),0)), copied down as needed.” …To Read More Click Here to go to Tom Urtis’s Lesson.

From ‘Beginning Excel’: “HLOOKUP to Find Resistor Values”

From ‘Beginning Excel’ on WordPress we have an entry into the “VLOOKUP WEEK 2012” event that looks at HLOOKUP.

“Converting color bands to the equivalent resistance value is a good example of how table lookup function can be employed. Anyone can pick a separate color for every band through a drop-down list (built from data validation facility) and Excel matches color selected to the reference table, counts and displays the resistance value.” To Read More Click Here to go to Beginning Excel’s Lesson.

What is this?

Welcome toVLOOKUP WEEK 2012! What is VLOOKUP WEEK, you ask? VLOOKUP WEEK is an entire week [March 25th, 2012 through March 31st, 2012] dedicated to one of the greatest yet least used Functions of Microsoft Excel: The LOOKUP Function.

Contributors, please see the ‘Excel Guru‘ button above.