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Microsoft Excel: Let’s Look Beyond the LOOKUP

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OVERVIEW MSExcel VLOOKUP retrieves one result to a match request, if that match can be found in the leftmost column of a large dataset. If the data is not laid out properly, or if the data is held as the wrong type, everything crumbles in the spreadsheet. Instead, you can expand your horizons with text, logical, lookup, and math functions – as well as new ways of referencing the data. This Microsoft Excel training program will explore many of the most powerful, dynamic functions available in Excel. All too often, we get our data from clients that don’t understand how to use Excel, or databases that weren’t set up with our goals in mind. We can spend far too long trying to make the data just right, instead of pulling out the right tool from the toolbox. Integrating IFERROR, ISERROR, and IFNA with VLOOKUP immediately makes it more forgiving, and using MATCH with it makes it more flexible. You can replace VLOOKUP formula in Excel entirely, sometimes with INDEX and MATCH, and oth...