How to use XLOOKUP function in Excel?

A new function is introduced in Office 365 which is “XLOOKUP” a modern replacement of previous functions “VLOOKUP”, “HLOOKUP” and “LOOKUP”. This modern function allows locating specific entries in a large array of data. Whereas, the previous similar function VLOOKUP only allows searching for single cells in a spreadsheet.

XLOOKUP allows you to search for data in a horizontal or vertical array and finds a matching value in some other row/column. This will give you an exact matching of the data you have searched for. 

Here is the XLOOKUP function:

=XLOOKUP(Lookup_value, lookup_array, return_array, [if_not_found], [match,mode], [search_mode])

The first 3 inputs are compulsory, while the other three are optional.

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If you are not using XLOOKUP already, I strongly recommend replacing use of VLOOKUP with it, you are going to like the experience.

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