When you dive into the world of Excel, you quickly realize the power of its functions. Among these, the INDEX & MATCH formulas stand out as incredibly versatile tools for data lookup and retrieval ...

The bigger your spreadsheet, the more you need INDEX and MATCH functions, which you can combine with SUM, AVERAGE, and MAX to refine your searches.

Excel MATCH is a Lookup and Reference function to search for specific items in a range of cell & return the relative position of that item in the range.

Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on certain arguments you input. However, combining—or nesting—functions ...

SEE: How to become a developer: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic) Set the match_mode to 2 and you can use the usual Excel ? and * wildcards to specify what to match on.

Using the INDEX and MATCH functions may do what you need not only faster but also using less memory as well.

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell.

The XMATCH function was introduced to Microsoft Excel in 2021 as an upgrade from the MATCH function. The default arguments in the XMATCH syntax are more intuitive than those in the MATCH syntax ...

Microsoft Excel's new FILTER() function is a great tool for reporting and dashboards. We'll show you how to use it to get more done.