An curved arrow pointing right. VLOOKUP is one of the most useful functions in Excel. You can pull specific data out of huge data sets with a simple formula. Just watch. Produced by Sara ...

When I enter an employee ID, Excel will automatically tell me the employee's name (using the VLOOKUP function), the total number of weeks of data we have (using the COUNTIF function), and the ...

However, using this formula effectively requires ... vital component of any data analyst’s toolkit. The VLOOKUP function remains one of Excel’s most widely used tools for vertical lookups.