Ms Excel Hlookup Vlookup. VLOOKUP supports approximate and exact matching, and wildcards (* ?) for partial The Excel XLOOKUP function is a modern and flexible replacement for older functions like VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and LOOKUP. As full disclosure, I work at Microsoft.
More specifically, it searches for a certain value in the first row of the table and returns another As you already know, both functions VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP search for a lookup value.
In this tutorial, you learn exactly how to perform a horizontal lookup.
You can play around using more instances. Excel has a range of functions that you can use to achieve this including VLOOKUP() and HLOOKUP() and the more flexible, but slightly more complicated, combination The VLOOKUP() function assumes that your data is arranged as a table with different elements of the information in different columns. While VLOOKUP searches for the value in a column, HLOOKUP searches for the value in a row. in Excel modeling.