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Vlookup and Hlookup

ResolvedVersion 2003

Barnaby has attended:
Excel Intermediate course

Vlookup and Hlookup

What is the purpose behind Vlookup and Hlookup

RE: Vlookup and Hlookup

Hi Barnaby

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions are designed to get Excel to extract a certain piece of information from a list/database in Excel.

Basically VLOOKUP is used to get Excel to search for something in the left most column of a table, then find a corresponding piece of data from the same row and display it for you.

HLOOKUP is used to get Excel to search for something in the top row of a table, then find a corresponding piece of data from the same column and display it for you.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

Excel tip:

Autofit column width – Excel (all versions)

a. Highlight the column or columns you wish to alter the width of. You do this by clicking on the grey button at the top of the column showing the column letter. Click and drag on these letters to select more than one column.
b. Double click the dividing line between the columns. This dividing line is the break between the columns on the column headers (grey buttons showing the column letter at the top of each column). When you hover your mouse over one of these dividing lines the point will change and show an arrow pulling a line in two directions. When you have this mouse pointer you should double click to get Excel to automatically set the column width to fit the contents of the column (autofit)

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