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VLOOKUP in MS Excel

VLOOKUP in MS Excel H ello and welcome back to Learn Java. It's been very long since I wrote my last post. This post will give you a short and simple tutorial on using VLOOKUP in MS Excel. Verticle Lookup or VLOOKUP is a function in MS Excel that helps a user look for a specific value in a column   based on another particular value in the first column. A simple example: Your boss asks you to find the price of a food item based on its name. Syntax: VLOOKUP(the value you want to look up, where you want to look for it(array/column/table), the column number the value is in, return an approximate or exact match) Let's try to understand it more clearly: Here's a little data set containing a table of my favourite food items.  Step 1: Select a specific cell/text value you would like to search for in the given table/data set. Here, we are looking for the price of Pizza, so we use cell value "Pizza" which is also cell reference A3. We are making sure to use a cell value/re