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

Microsoft Excel's VLookup formula permits you to search large spreadsheets for specific data, one of Excel's lookup and reference functions. You can use VLookup between sheets within an Excel ...

The benefit of a last-to-first lookup is that you can find the most recent occurrence of a value in a lookup array that is listed in date order. To achieve this with VLOOKUP, you would have to reverse ...

The bigger your spreadsheet, the more you need INDEX and MATCH functions, which you can combine with SUM, AVERAGE, and MAX to refine your searches.