18 October 2012
V-look up allows you to look up values in a table that are listed in column format (how most tables are laid out), given another value (let’s call this the “key”). Excel also has a sister function called hlookup (h = horizontal) that can be used to look up values in rows. Vlookup’s format looks like the following:
=vlookup(lookup value, table where values reside, column # where values are located, false)