Master Excel's LOOKUP Function: A Practical Guide
Let's explore Excel's LOOKUP function—a tool for finding information in spreadsheets, but one often overshadowed by more modern alternatives. While useful in specific situations, it has limitations. This guide details how it works, its shortcomings, and when to use it (and when not to). We'll compare it to VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. How the LOOKUP Function Works At its core, LOOKUP searches a single row or column of data (a "...