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The Best Lookup Functions in Excel: Examples, Pros, and Cons

There are many ways to find and retrieve data from a table or range based on a lookup value. In fact, because Microsoft often comes up with new, modernized alternatives, there are too many ways! So, ...
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How to use VLOOKUP() to find the closest match in Excel

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How to use the MATCH function in Excel

Lookup_ value: The value you want to match in the lookup_array. It is required. Lookup_array: The range of cells being searched. It is required. Match_type: Specifies how lookup_value matches with ...
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Excel question: Out of memory on a VLOOKUP function. How do I work around it?

I am running into the dreaded "Excel cannot complete this task with available resources" dialog box in Excel while trying to fill a column with a simple VLOOKUP equation. I have one column with ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER ... The syntax for the TEXTBEFORE function is = TEXTBEFORE(text, delimiter, [instance_num], [match_mode ...