Excel's VLOOKUP function is similar to a telephone book. You provide it with a value to look up (like someone’s name), and it ...

Before I explain why I prefer XLOOKUP to VLOOKUP, I'll show you how they work. XLOOKUP has six arguments: =XLOOKUP(a,b,c,d,e,f) where In this example, I want Excel to look up the employee ID based ...