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microsoft excel training - How do look up tables work?
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Thu 24 Jan 2008, 14:02Delegate Pedro said...
Pedro has attended:
Excel Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course
How do look up tables work?
Having problems with the theory behind VLOOKUPS.
Thanks
Wed 6 Feb 2008, 20:46Trainer Amanda said...
RE: How do look up tables work?
Hi Pedro
Thank you for your question; and apologies for the delay in response.
The idea behind the VLOOKUP is that you can ask Excel to look for a certain value or piece of text in one column, and then find and display another value/piece of text in the same row but a different column. Basically it saves you from having to look through a column of data for a particular bit of data, then find another piece of data in the same row yourself.
I hope this helps.
Amanda
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