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Published inFeb 2024
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Michael Olafusi
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Michael Olafusi

Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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Lookup and reference functions

Lookup functions in Excel are mostly for looking up values in a specified range and returning a related value. They are very useful for working between two tables or finding content related to a given value while reference functions are for manipulating cell references.

In this section, we will cover the following important lookup and reference functions in Legacy Excel:

  • VLOOKUP
  • HLOOKUP
  • INDEX
  • MATCH
  • OFFSET
  • INDIRECT
  • CHOOSE

The first of these lookup and reference functions that we will cover is VLOOKUP.

VLOOKUP

VLOOKUP is an Excel function for looking up a value in a table and returning a related value in one of the table’s columns. Its syntax is VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table,column_value_to_return,exact_or_approximate), where the value to look up is the first input, followed by the table to search in, then the column position of the value to return and, finally, whether to do an exact match (FALSE) or...

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Michael Olafusi is a 9x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a business intelligence consultant. He is the lead consultant and founder of MHS Analytics Inc. in Canada and UrBizEdge Limited. He has been consulting for clients across North America, Europe, and Africa on data analysis, business intelligence, and financial modeling for the past 10 years. Outside of his consulting business, he is a member of Rotary and the Southern Cruisers Riding Club (SCRC) Chapter 373. He is a proud member of the Canadian Red Cross friendly calls volunteer team. He is also a faculty member at WorldQuant University, USA.
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