Excel Get a Column Value Corresponding to A Value Match in Another Column

External

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vlookup-function-0bbc8083-26fe-4963-8ab8-93a18ad188a1

Internal

• Excel

Overview

In a bidimensional table, scan a column looking for a specific value and return the corresponding value from another column. A very common example is a table containing the price of a stock, recored at different distinct dates. Return the stock price for a given date.

Use VLOOKUP(). VLOOKUP is useful when you need to find things in a table or a range by row. For example, look up a price of an automotive part by the part number, or find an employee name based on their employee ID.

=VLOOKUP(What you want to look up, 
         where you want to look for it, 
         the column number in the range containing the value to return, 
         return an Approximate or Exact match – indicated as 1/TRUE, or 0/FALSE).

"What you want to look up" can be a value or a reference to another cell that contains the value to look up.

The column numbers are 1-based.