Unpopular opinion: VLOOKUP is overrated—once you try XLOOKUP, there’s no going back!

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I’d argue that’s a popular opinion and you’re late to the game

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Hahaha yes popular opinion for sure

XLookup > Index Match > VLookup & HLookup

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lol xlookup on top

VLOOKUP can be faster in many situations, both are good tools

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That’s true but xlookup more robust and flexible

Index match is superior bc of being able to follow the equation with ctrl + [

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Press Ctrl + [ on an equation and you will see Ctrl + G + enter to pop back

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Can’t believe I was using Vlookup for the longest time because of the version of Excel I had at work

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Ive had issues where the text formats aren’t the same and lookup formula doesn’t return any values, but sumif formula works. Any way to fix or workaround this?

Oh my thanks I was having similar issue too

Amen!!

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