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Would anyone be willing to teach me vlookup?
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Still don't have xlookup. #fomo
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Coach
The most common functions matching or using a match are MATCH, all the VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP.
For matching text it is FIND, REPLACE, and the regular expression add-in (need to use it with VBA)
Coach
You can also use formula arrays if the match is complex:
{= IF(A1:A100<4,1,0) * IF(B1:B100= "dummy",1,0) }
Subject Expert
Well, reference functions (which I think is what you meant by match functions) are formulas in which you can directly or indirectly reference another value based on a criteria. The ones I know by the top of my head are:
=MATCH() - pls be aware index match is not a reference function per se
=VLOOKUP()
=HLOOKUP()
=XLOOKUP()
=XMATCH()
=OFFSET()
=FILTER()
=INDIRECT()
You can also do workarounds with =SUMPRODUCT() to transform it to a reference function - finance people use this trick quite often
Functions like =SEARCH(), =MID(), =SUMIFS(),=AGGREGATE() are not reference functions, however they use match process inside their logics
Subject Expert
P.s.: a full list of all functions in excel can be found in the link below - you are looking into “lookup and reference” subset of formulas
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-functions-alphabetical-b3944572-255d-4efb-bb96-c6d90033e188