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Linking Techniques in Depth in Excel
Roman Kondratiuk
Lookup functions can rapidly and easily perform a multitude of tedious data matching tasks e.g. highlighting data mis-matches and anomalies between large tables; matching salaries to employees; awarding bonuses according to sales volumes, and mapping values from different sources into consolidated reports.
HLOOKUP matches data to a lookup table by row and can be used for:
– matching approximate pre-defined ranges; e.g. match levels of bonuses to sales achieved; or
– exact data matches between data sets; e.g. employee ID to specific salary
The lookup table in a lookup formula can either have absolute cell references or can be a named range.