INDEX MATCH Articles: Excel and Google Sheets

INDEX and MATCH are two functions in Excel that can be combined together to perform advanced lookups. It is a powerful duo of functions that generally overcomes all the limitations of the VLOOKUP function, i.e., unlike VLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH does not require the lookup value being in the first column....

VLOOKUP is one of the lookup and reference functions in Excel is used to find values in a specified range by “row”. It compares them row-wise until it finds a match. In order for VLOOKUP to work, the lookup value must be on the left-most column on the table array. If your...