Standard Excel lookups are perfectionists that fail on typos or extra spaces. While you could hack a solution using nested XLOOKUP, TRIM, and LOWER functions, it's brittle and hard to maintain. Power ...

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If you'd like to isolate cells in a Microsoft Excel data sheet based on criteria that has a partial cell match, this can be done through the use of a MATCH function. When applied, the MATCH function ...

Have you ever felt like Excel’s lookup functions are more of a puzzle than a solution? If you’ve wrestled with the quirks of VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP, you’re not alone. But here’s the good news: Microsoft ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...