Comments on: How to Use Vlookup in Microsoft Excel to Combine Tables of Data

By: sumitbansal23

sumitbansal23 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:30:45 +0000

Vlookup is the star function, but I prefer Index & Match. It can do all that Vlookup does, plus a lot more

By: Col Delane

Col Delane — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:17:47 +0000

Ann, I think you’re rather underselling the VLOOKUP function by saying that it is for merging and combining datasets. Sure you can use the function for such tasks, and these don’t need to be as extensive as your example (e.g. you may just wish to add a single value which is returned from another table/database) but it can do more than that – like grading raw numeric scores into brackets/bins, returning the appropriate income tax or commission rate for a given level of income or sales, etc.
VLOOKUP is a great function, though – like most other Excel functions – it does have its limitations and traps for new players.

By: Karen Anderson

Karen Anderson — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:32:21 +0000

Vlookups consumed my life the last few months of my most recent CQI/Eval position. Very helpful and quite the time saver once you get the hang of it though. Thanks for sharing these tips and congrats on 100,000 views!