How to use wildcards with the XLOOKUP() function in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible. Lookup functions ...

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.

The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.