Tag Archives: VLookup

More on Lookups

Posted on November 22, 2016 by dougaj4

Following my recent post on nearest lookups, I came across a post from Charles Williams on the opposite problem; how to do an exact VLookup  on a large amount of data without taking all day, but still retaining the ability to return … Continue reading →

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Nearest Lookup Function

Posted on October 21, 2016 by dougaj4

The Excel Lookup functions (including VLookup, HLookup and Match) all allow for an “exact” or “closest” match on numerical data, but the closest option has a number of problems: The data must be sorted For VLookup and HLookup the data … Continue reading →

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Time to Lookup

Posted on April 27, 2015 by dougaj4

At Daily Dose of Excel Jeff Weir has been looking at alternative methods of applying the VLookup function and ways of getting precise timing of the different formulations. Based on his posts there I have written two Lookup User Defined … Continue reading →

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