When writing formulas in Excel, SUM and VLOOKUP are staples for beginners. But since Excel has over 400 functions, it's helpful to know more of the extremely useful ones, especially when looking to ...

=VLOOKUP(101, A2:C20, 2, FALSE) // Searches for value 101 in the first column of A2:C20 // Returns the value from column 2 in the same row // FALSE → Exact match required =VLOOKUP("Apple", A2:D20, 4, ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

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