Excel 2003

Dear Roslyn

Thank you for attending Excel Intermediate course!! I hope you enjoyed the course and benefited from it.

VLookup is helpful if you have large amount of information on a worksheet or seperate worksheets or even workbook.

This function can look into a value in a cell and then provide you with the corresponding value on a different cell from the big table known as the Table array.

VLookup is covered in our Excel Adv level course. Please refer to the following link to see what other topics we cover in Excel Advanced:

https://www.stl-training.co.uk/excel-training-in-london-2003-advanced.php

I am uploading an excel file with some example. Please refer to it for the below mentioned explanation:

If you notice Cell Range A9:F49 is the main table (Table Array).

A6 is the cell which other cells on the right will refer to display the result. Therefore, this will be our Lookup value.

In Cell B6 I entered the following formula:

=VLOOKUP(A6,A9:F49,2,FALSE)


NB: If you are thinking of copying the Vlookup function and paste iit to other cells then you need to make sure that you put $ signs to make teh cell absolute ie. $a$6.

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