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Lookup functions mastery

Progress from basic VLOOKUP patterns to more flexible INDEX/MATCH and XLOOKUP workflows.

Beginner 16 exercises
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Exercises in this track

1

VLOOKUP for price

Find a product's price from a product catalog using the product code.

VLOOKUP XLOOKUP INDEX
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2

Use VLOOKUP to find an employee’s department

Look up an employee's department using their employee ID.

VLOOKUP XLOOKUP INDEX
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HLOOKUP for quarterly targets

Use HLOOKUP to retrieve a sales target for a specific quarter from a horizontal table.

HLOOKUP VLOOKUP XLOOKUP
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VLOOKUP with approximate match

Calculate shipping rate based on package weight using a tiered rate table.

VLOOKUP XLOOKUP INDEX
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5

Find a customer's city with VLOOKUP

Look up which city a customer is located in using their customer ID and a customer directory table.

VLOOKUP XLOOKUP INDEX
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Look up a product with XLOOKUP

Use XLOOKUP to find a product's category from a product catalog.

XLOOKUP VLOOKUP INDEX
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XLOOKUP with exact match

Use XLOOKUP to pull current stock quantities for items on a reorder list.

XLOOKUP VLOOKUP INDEX
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XLOOKUP left lookup

Return an ID from a column to the left of the lookup value using XLOOKUP.

XLOOKUP XMATCH INDEX
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XLOOKUP with default

Look up product info, returning "Discontinued" if product not found.

XLOOKUP XMATCH IFNA
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XLOOKUP with wildcard search

Use XLOOKUP with wildcard matching to find a product and price when you only know part of the product name.

XLOOKUP XMATCH VLOOKUP
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Lookup error handling

Handle missing lookups with IFNA for VLOOKUP and the not_found argument in XLOOKUP.

VLOOKUP XLOOKUP IFNA
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12

Look up a manager with INDEX+MATCH

Look up an employee's manager using INDEX-MATCH (lookup value not in first column).

INDEX MATCH XLOOKUP
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13

INDEX-MATCH left lookup

Find a customer's email address where email is to the LEFT of customer ID.

INDEX MATCH XLOOKUP
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INDEX-MATCH with MATCH in both directions

Use INDEX with two MATCH functions to return a value from a shipping rate grid.

INDEX MATCH XLOOKUP
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XLOOKUP multiple criteria

Find the price for a specific product in a specific quarter using nested XLOOKUP.

XLOOKUP INDEX MATCH
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Return multiple columns

Look up a customer ID and return name, email, and phone in one formula row.

XLOOKUP INDEX MATCH
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