Sunday, December 20, 2015

Useful Excel functions for a SOA resource

VLOOKUP Function:

One simple requirement for VLOOKUP function is to compare two sheet and find out the matching rows.
For example here we have two tables of Order ID’s and we want to match them (get matching and not matching ID’s).
We can copy both the list in same or to be more clear in different sheets.

                                            


On an available cell, we need to write the VLOOKUP function as below, So this lookups for a value in
 an array range and if found returns a column of that matched row.
Range lookup = true – approx. match will be returned
Range lookup = false – exact match will be returned


range_lookup   (optional)
A logical value that specifies whether you want VLOOKUP to find an exact match or an approximate match:
·         TRUE assumes the first column in the table is sorted either numerically or alphabetically, and will then search for the closest value. This is the default method if you don't specify one.
·         FALSE searches for the exact value in the first column.
 
So below function fulfils our purpose.