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Lookout for lookup tables.(search through data using Excel's lookup functions)
Byline: Stephen Wells
Lookout for lookup tables
Search through data using Excel's lookup functions
I've been chivvied into this month's subject from both ends of the spreadsheet experience spectrum. David Shaw asks, "Would it be possible to do a feature on the use of VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP in Excel?" And Victor Arotsky chides me over a recent column for "the sin of long nested IF formulas, usually an error in my experience, though you can partially be forgiven by your alternative recommendation of a lookup table".
I don't think Microsoft sees nested IF formulas and lookup tables as competing solutions to a problem. They are ...
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