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excel's way of asking one column to go find its soulmate in another spreadsheet.
means a spreadsheet function that searches for a value in the leftmost column of a range and returns a matching value from a specified column to the right.
from introduced in excel 2.0 in 1987, short for vertical lookup, built to search down a column rather than across a row like its neglected sibling hlookup.
leftmost rulelookup value must sit in the first column, always
exact match trapforgetting false as last argument breaks everything silently
successor existsxlookup replaced it officially in excel 2019
job interviewsstill the most asked excel question worldwide
for instance
finance analyst resumes — vlookup listed as a skill more than python, surveys show
excel 2019 xlookup launch — microsoft called vlookup limitations out by name