Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Excel - Look Up, Match and Compare Data

Course Duration: 90 Minutes

Target Audience:

This session is intended for Excel users who wish to manage data records in lists or tables, and need to search for data pertaining to specific search criteria.

Course Objectives:

The Lookup functions in Excel enable you to look up cells content in a separate range of data and return data associated with the matched value. You can use a HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP depending on the orientation of the table you are looking up. You can also use a combination of MATCH and INDEX instead of a Look Up function which can be useful for bigger files.

Course Outline:

Introduction and Overview

CONTENT

Creating Lookup Functions

  • When to use a Look Up function
  • How to create a formula using the Look Up function
  • How to check your data
  • How to return an exact match

Using Range Names

  • When and how to use range names in the Look Up function

Using Branching

  • Branch when errors / non match occurs

Additional Features

  • Using the MATCH function within the Look Up
  • VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
  • Using the MATCH and INDEX function instead of a Look Up

Discussion and Question Time