There was an excellent excel video by ... someone famous in our field whose name escapes me, and one thing I internalized from that was that VLOOKUP is always a bad choice, and INDEX + MATCH is almost always what you want instead.
About once a year I go looking for that video, and about half the time, I find it, and half the time I don't. I should really bookmark it.
Thanks, saving a click, not going for the article; not that it's necessarily bad or uninteresting; not that I wouldn't if I had more time on this planet.
About once a year I go looking for that video, and about half the time, I find it, and half the time I don't. I should really bookmark it.
Lots of past HN discussion... https://hn.algolia.com/?q=you+suck+at+excel
That video was before the introduction of xlookup, which I believe is now worth considering over index and match.
Thanks, saving a click, not going for the article; not that it's necessarily bad or uninteresting; not that I wouldn't if I had more time on this planet.
Didn't Excel gain the ability to use names at some point?
Is 'anominal' a word? As in 'anominal' or 'non-nominal' programming, or 'un-' or 'dis-'. Maybe Excel rises to 'pseudonominal'.
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Most users would use below nested IF function
=IF(B2=$F$3,$G$3,IF(B2=$F$4,$G$4,IF(B2=$F$5,$G$5,IF(B2=$F$6,$G$6,IF(B2=$F$7,$G$7,IF(B2=$F$8,$G$8))))))
Is support poor? Competitors can do it: https://www.quadratichq.com/ (look at their VLOOKUP example)