VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that can ...

Excel's VLOOKUP function searches cell arrays for data that you provide. The function often takes cell references as input, letting you easily apply the function to each cell in a range. Alternatively ...