The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.

I am running into the dreaded "Excel cannot complete this task with available resources" dialog box in Excel while trying to fill a column with a simple VLOOKUP equation. I have one column with ...

A little from column A, a little from column B: XLOOKUP is the new, easier way to retrieve information across Excel spreadsheets.

You use these functions when you want to find values based on the value in a corresponding cell. Thanks to the newish dynamic array function XLOOKUP (), you now have more power and less confusion.

Where VLOOKUP can only perform a right-looking search, DGET can return values to the left of the lookup column. DGET adapts instantly to criteria changes. This function works with both text and ...