Introduction to the VLOOKUP Function

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  ¬unction is used to search Ã
à in
another à and i¬ ¬ound return the
 
 
à o¬ that table ¬or the

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 ’
es o¬ VLOOKUP
÷ You can looku
values in one o¬ the two
¬ollowing wa s:
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÷ 3ange looku
is used when ou want to search ¬or
ranges , it will look ¬or nearest minimum value ¬rom the
¬irst column o¬ the table i.e. i¬ the table consists 70, 80,
90 ͙ and ou search ¬or 75 it will destined to 70 as it is
the nearest and the minimum value
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÷ e use this kind o¬ looku
s when we need to seek
exact value

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 G ntax o¬ VLOOKUP
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÷ ’he ¬unction have 4
arameters
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: ’his is the
à ou want to search in
another table, it could be a value or a cell re¬erence
÷   
 : ’his is the range o¬ that à in which
ou want the value to be searched
÷ 
 : ’his is the   which contains the value
ou want to be returned i¬ the required value ¬ound
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: ’his is the ¬inal & o
tional
arameter,
which indicates that i¬ it is true u Ã 
Ãs) else i¬ ¬alse
VLOOKUP will look ¬or uÃ
Ã)

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Practical Exam
le o¬ 3ange Looku

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For
er¬orming range looku
s ou have to cater
the ¬ollowing two requirements:
÷ First  o¬ the source à should contain the

Ã
¬rom which ou want to search ¬or
÷ ’he à in which ou want to 
à must be
sorted in ascending order b the ¬irst column

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 Practical Exam
le o¬ 3ange Looku
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continued ͙
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e have a table in which
data o¬ the sales
ersons G

  
available along with >=0 0%
their sales, we
rovide >=5,000 5%
commissions to these >=10,000 7%
sales
ersons on the >=20,000 10%
basis o¬ their sales which
are as given

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 Practical
’his is the
Exam
le o¬ 3ange Looku
ʹ
we want to search. Note we have continued ͙
  
 where
’his is the

ut $ signs to make it absolute so 
 

’he answer o¬ this exam
le 
when we co
the ¬ormula will be 7% or 0.07 as it will seek which we want to
downwards or rightwards it don͛t ¬or 11,200 and the nearest look ¬or in this case it
change its value minimum value is 10,000 is 11,200
’he corres
onding value ¬or 10,000
Is 7% so it will return 7%

’his
arameter ’his is the

basicall de¬ines column_number
that ¬or which value

   
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 Practical Exam
le o¬ Exact Looku

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You have a table o¬ em
lo ees which contains
the Em
lo ee_ID, First_Name, Last_Name &
their res
ective salaries, on another table ou
want to enter the da s the are
resent ¬or
that s
eci¬ic month ou need to calculate their
salar based on their basic salar listed in
master list.

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 Practical Exam
le o¬ Exact Looku

’his is the

 

which we want to
look ¬or in this case it
is 104

’his is the


 


 where
we want to search. Note we have
ut
$ signs to make it absolute so when we
co
the ¬ormula downwards or
rightwards it don͛t change its value. As ’his is the
it is ¬rom another sheet it also contains column_number
sheet name MasterList ¬or which value
to be returned
Answer ¬or this exam
le will be 7,100 which ’his
arameter
will than divided b 30 and multi
lied b 20
basicall de¬ines that
which will return 4,733.33 uwe have done
the multi
lication & division as we want this is not a
Galar ¬or the current month and the
erson 
   
 b
attended onl 20 da s this month
ro¬iding a FALGE
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 onclusion
÷ VLOOKUP is used to look a value in another table
÷ ’here are two kinds o¬ looku
s ¬irst is 3ange and
other is Exact
÷ For range ou need to sort the source table b its
¬irst column in ascending order
÷ For an looku
¬irst column o¬ source table should
contain the values in which ou want to looku

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