One of the most popular function of Microsoft Excel is VLOOKUP. Most of the users when first time use this function are pretty confused, as it have several options through which it can operate. This slide presentation is created to help the people interested in learning this wonderful function.

7. Practical Example of Range Lookup – continued … This is the which_value_to_search which we want to look for in this case it is 11,200 This is the in_which_range_to_search where we want to search. Note we have put $ signs to make it absolute so when we copy the formula downwards or rightwards it don’t change its value This is the column_number for which value to be returned This parameter basically defines that is_it_a_range_lookup The answer of this example will be 7% or 0.07 as it will seek for 11,200 and the nearest minimum value is 10,000 The corresponding value for 10,000 Is 7% so it will return 7%

9. Practical Example of Exact Lookup This is the which_value_to_search which we want to look for in this case it is 104 This is the in_which_range_to_search where we want to search. Note we have put $ signs to make it absolute so when we copy the formula downwards or rightwards it don’t change its value. As it is from another sheet it also contains sheet name MasterList This is the column_number for which value to be returned This parameter basically defines that this is not a is_it_a_range_lookup by profiding a FALSE Answer for this example will be 7,100 which will than divided by 30 and multiplied by 20 which will return 4,733.33 (we have done the multiplication & division as we want Salary for the current month and the person attended only 20 days this month