Mastering VLOOKUP: Complete Guide to Retrieving Full Records in Excel 📊

VLOOKUP in Excel. This is the fourth video in a series for VLOOKUP Beginner to advanced.
VLOOKUP is used in Excel to search and return values to a cell. In this video I walk you through three examples for doing full record retrieval. In simple terms VLOOKUP is used when you need to find things from a table or a range by row.

There are four pieces of information that you will need in order to build the VLOOKUP syntax as shown below.
1. The value you want to look up, also called the lookup value.
2. The range where the lookup value is located. Remember that the lookup value should always be in the first column in the range for VLOOKUP to work correctly.
3. The column number in the range that contains the return value. For example, if you specify B2:D11 as the range, you should count B as the first column, C as the second, and so on.

Optionally, you can specify TRUE if you want an approximate match or FALSE if you want an exact match of the return value. If you don't specify anything, the default value will always be TRUE or approximate match.