Excel Formulas

excel-formulas.txt

# Far better alternative to VLOOKUP
# Works in both Excel and Google Sheets

# VLOOKUP is _NOT_ case-sensitive and doesn't handle situations where the return value is in a column BEFORE the lookup.
# This uses a table called Table1 with Name and Age Columns, with the lookup being in cell A1

=INDEX(Table1[Name], MATCH(TRUE, EXACT(A1, Table1[Age]), 0))

# The following does the same but it finds text ANYWHERE inside the cell, rather than an exact value.
=INDEX(Table1[Name], MATCH(TRUE, ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1, Table1[Age])), 0))

# And this will find the last occurrence
=INDEX(Table1[Name], LOOKUP(2, 1/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1, Table1[Age]))), ROW(Table1[Name])-ROW(INDEX(Table1[Name],1))+1))

# An alternative, which I didn't know about previously, is XLOOKUP
=XLOOKUP(A1, Table1[Age], Table1[Name], "No Matches Found")