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Get employee information with VLOOKUP in Excel

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This tutorial shows how to Get employee information with VLOOKUP in Excel using the example below;

Formula

=VLOOKUP(id,data,column,FALSE)

Explanation

If you want to retrieve employee information from a table, and the table contains a unique id to the left of the information you want to retrieve, you can easily do so with the VLOOKUP function.

Worked Example:   How to use Excel VLOOKUP Function

In the example shown, the VLOOKUP formula looks like this:

=VLOOKUP(id,data,3,FALSE)

How this formula works

In this case “id” is a named range = B4 (which contains the lookup value), and “data” is a named range = B8:E107 (the data in the table). The number 3 indicates the 3rd column in the table (last name) and FALSE is supplied to force an exact match.

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In “exact match mode” VLOOKUP will check every value in the first column of the supplied table for the lookup value. If it finds an exact match, VLOOKUP will return a value from the same row, using the supplied column number. If no exact match is found, VLOOKUP will return the #N/A error.

Worked Example:   VLOOKUP function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Note: it’s important to require an exact match using FALSE or 0 for the last argument, which is called “range_lookup”). Otherwise, VLOOKUP might return an incorrect result.

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