When you dive into the world of Excel, you quickly realize the power of its functions. Among these, the INDEX & MATCH formulas stand out as incredibly versatile tools for data lookup and retrieval ...

For many, the INDEX-XMATCH combination in Excel is the go-to method for retrieving a value from a dataset. However, you can ...

Excel MATCH is a Lookup and Reference function to search for specific items in a range of cell & return the relative position of that item in the range.

The bigger your spreadsheet, the more you need INDEX and MATCH functions, which you can combine with SUM, AVERAGE, and MAX to refine your searches.

This guide explores key Excel functions—FILTER, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, INDEX-MATCH, and VLOOKUP—detailing their unique strengths, practical applications, and potential limitations.

INDEX with XMATCH returns an item from a range or array according to the first or last match it finds. Like XLOOKUP, it works with vertical and horizontal datasets, can search in any direction, and ...

Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible.

I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. This newish function is available in Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, and Excel for the web.