Timed test: lookups
Do four lookup tasks against an 8-minute clock, with VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH, and a lookup on two conditions.
In this lesson
=VLOOKUP(D2,Products!$A$2:$D$16,4,FALSE): find D2 in the first column, return the 4th.=XLOOKUP(B2,SKUs,Names,"Not listed"): any return column, left or right, with a value for not found.=INDEX(SKUs,MATCH(A2,Names,0)): MATCH finds the row, INDEX returns from it.
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