Approximate match: tax brackets and commission tiers
Look up which tier or bracket a number falls in with an approximate-match VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP on a sorted table.
In this lesson
- Approximate match returns the row of the largest value that is less than or equal to the one you look up.
=VLOOKUP(value, table, column, TRUE). Leaving out the last argument also means TRUE.=XLOOKUP(value, tier starts, results, , -1): -1 = exact or next smaller.
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Look up a price with VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
Bring each order's price over from a price list with VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP, and avoid the missing-FALSE trap.
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Look up a price with VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
Bring each order's price over from a price list with VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP, and avoid the missing-FALSE trap.
Confident · 11 min · Free, with no sign-up
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Send yourself the link and open it on a laptop or desktop.
On your computer, go tolearnford.com/go/SPJV