That trick is Index/Match, a function that can find any value in any spreadsheet. One of the most common uses of Excel is as a database program, and oftentimes you've got to search the sheet for a ...

Understanding Excel INDEX & MATCH Formulas Unlike the more commonly known VLOOKUP, the combination of INDEX and MATCH offers greater flexibility and efficiency. To start, you need to understand ...

Index, Match, and Index Match. In Excel, the INDEX function returns an item from a specific position (in a list, table, database). The MATCH function returns the position of a value (in a list ...

There are many ways to extract values from data in Microsoft Excel, and two such examples are the MATCH and XMATCH functions. However, since Microsoft introduced XMATCH to Excel in 2021, I've ...

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

Once you have mastered VLOOKUP in Excel it's time to move on to INDEX/MATCH. This formula combination gives the same results but without the problems of VLOOKUP. Produced by Sara Silverstein.

To check if a value exists in an array, we can loop through its elements. However there is another solution! You can use the INDEX () function, native to Excel and in the case of two-dimensional ...