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How to use lookup function : VLOOKUP function in Excel

Excel Worksheet primarily supports tabulation functions which are very useful for preparing reports and financial data.  Inserting a formula in excel worksheet has the following steps:-

Suppose a value to be searched from one sheet and to be shown in another sheet vertical lookup(VLOOKUP) function is used.

FORMULA = VLOOKUP(A4,Sheet1!A1:F15,3,False).

In this formula when after inserting '=' sign add the word/function name "VLOOKUP"   inside the bracket the first item is "A4". This is the lookup cell value.   Then add the range of cells "Sheet1!A1:F15" to look for this value out of the Range – A1:F15 and add the index number "3" out of which we want to take the value.  The value required is lies in the column index no.3. Finally for an exact match add “False”.

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