I don't use VLOOKUP anymore. I use this instead....

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VLOOKUP is the most used Excel function out there. But here is a secret. I no longer use it!!!
That is right. I broke up with VLOOKUP.
I use XLOOKUP now. It is a new function in Excel 365.
So in this video, let me introduce you to my new crush 😍 - The XLOOKUP.
In this video, learn all about:
👉 What is XLOOKUP and how it's better than VLOOKUP
👉 Using XLOOKUP in business situations
👉 Errors & XLOOKUP (if not found option)
👉 XLOOKUP with tabular data
👉 Wildcard (pattern) matching with XLOOKUP
👉 Returning multiple values with XLOOKUP
👉 XLOOKUP vs. HLOOKUP
Video topics ⏱👇
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0:00 - VLOOKUP & XLOOKUP - Quick examples
2:13 - Difference between VLOOKUP & XLOOKUP
2:30 - Using XLOOKUP instead of INDEX + MATCH
3:32 - Dealing with Errors (#N/A) using XLOOKUP
4:57 - XLOOKUP with Tabular Data (tables)
5:40 - Wild card (pattern matching) with XLOOKUP
7:40 - Returning multiple values with XLOOKUP
9:10 - XLOOKUP works horizontally too!!!
Example file (with many many XLOOKUPs) 🟩👉
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Here is a sample file with many many XLOOKUP examples - chandoo.org/wp/wp-content/upl...
If you want more, check out this article: chandoo.org/wp/xlookup-examples/
Or join my mini-course on various lookup functions in Excel here - skl.sh/3hbR49d
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XLOOKUP of course 🤣

[@Excelambda]

Great video!! Still VLOOKUP is versatile when it comes to column indexes. For example, in "XLOOKUP (table)" spreadsheet, if we set in the range C5:F5 : Name, Start date, Salary, Department, to extract the values corresponding to those columns we can use in C7: =VLOOKUP(C6,staff,XMATCH(C5:F5,staff[#Headers])) or =VLOOKUP(C6,staff,{2,6,5,4})

[@chandoo_]

That is a GREAT tip... Donut for you Exceλambda 🍩 I normally don't mind breaking such lookups in to separate formulas. If I am trying to combine two tables, I always try the "table relationships" or "power query" first before even considering any lookups.

[@sandeeepkiran1130]

What if the date has 2 employees joined. Will xlookup show both? Or just the first one?

[@chandoo_]

Just the first one. You need to use FILTER or something else to get all matches. See this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5KapmOpiq6AY6M

[@Excelambda]

@@sandeeepkiran1130 Hi, like Chandoo said, we can use FILTER, do this little experiment, set these values in the following ranges: A1:A6 B1:B6 D1:D2 a 1 b b 2 c b 3 c 4 c 5 d 6 Lookup vector (lv) D1:D2, lookup array (la) A1:A6 (has dups) , return array (ra) B1:B6 (can be any array with more than 1 clm) - formula similar to xlookup functionality in B8 or anywhere: =FILTER(B1:B6,ISNUMBER(XMATCH(A1:A6,D1:D2))) - or define a lambda that does the lookup: Duplicate Xlookup: DXL(lv,la,ra) =LAMBDA(lv,la,ra,FILTER(ra,ISNUMBER(XMATCH(la,lv)))) -call =DXL(D1:D2,A1:A6,B1:B6) Both, formula and function will extract the corresponding sections of "ra" for all matches with duplicates or not. Hope that helps.✌😉

[@Excelambda]

No need to say that this concept works also for arrays oriented horizontally. The only rule, since we use also XMATCH in the construction, both lookup vector and lookup array (lv and la) should be 1D arrays, no matter if they are horiz or vert.

[@chrism9037]

I agree Chandoo. Once XLOOKUP came out, I haven't used VLOOKUP since. Great video

[@chandoo_]

The brave new world... XLOOKUP and FILTER changed the way I approach my spreadsheets now.

[@5pctLowBattery]

Cool 😎 I started at a new company that uses office 365. Old company still used 2010 old excel. Lots to learn with new excel features.

[@chandoo_]

Congrats on your new job. I suggest catching up on "dynamic array functions" too. See this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX_EhGp_grB9hq8

[@udaimadduri6137]

This is fantastic! I have been dreaming for these simple useful features for several decades. Finally, my dream came true. Thank you so much!

[@KhiaraHarsh]

I find your step by step instructions very useful and relatable to a practical scenario. Keep up the good work!

[@Magahasaracom]

Wow until I watched this video Xlookup has been complex for me to understand. You explained everything so simply and thank you

[@wayneedmondson1065]

Awesome Chandoo! Thanks for the great lookup examples both old and new. Thumbs up!!

[@TannerDavies]

One of the best tutorials I've seen. Love your excel and PBI videos!

[@chandoo_]

Wow, thanks!

[@rameshbhatt3231]

Thanks Chandoo, this is awesome. I look after so many things in KZbin but never really subscribed anything. After watching your video today, I instantly subscribed and clicked on like as well. This is really helpful and presented very nicely. Appreciate it, god bless you!

[@dkjangir]

great sir I believe you are the first website i used to learn excel at all.& I am very happy to see again chandoo excel expert.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks and welcome

[@canirmalchoudhary8173]

Even I hate VLOOKUP and this video is best ever video as XLOOKUP tutorial Awesome 👌

[@rkmsafi]

Master class.. Way back I learn from you in excel webpage.. Now you are on youtube.. We are expecting a fire works..🔥🔥

[@robevans2114]

Very well presented. I can not wait for my next vlookup project to try xlookup. Thank you

[@harishpoalampalli9637]

This is Incredible !! simply the superb replacement of INDEX MATCH + VLOOKUP very powerful!! thanks a chandoo !! This is helping me a lot !! Great Explanation with sample workbook !! the uniqueness in you is providing the entire workbook for practice which helps a lot by watching the video and on fly implementing them !! Great Keep them coming chandoo!!

[@richasingh-zu8pz]

wow you teach in such a simple manner !!!

[@abbottkatz8830]

You can also return multiple resuts in VLOOKUP with column index numbers surrounded by squiggly brackets as array constants.

[@bhaskardebnath6401]

Very well explained... extremely high standard ....mush better than paid professional.

[@auliakhamil]

Thanks Chandoo, great video 😃

[@Moglikaur]

Great video by great Chandoo .. thank you for this..

[@silverpegasusknight]

Epic Knowledge!... for Day 2 day usage. Thanks!! Subscribed!!!

[@afzaalahmad3185]

Great Respected Sir, Mr. Chandooo !!!! August Way to Execute the knowledge !!!!

[@chandoo_]

So nice of you

[@nonoobott8602]

Great tutorial and very apt use cases. Thanks for sharing

[@chandoo_]

Thanks for watching!

[@neXianXaviaX]

Chandoo help! I have a lot of things to lookup, I have multiple tables and I have to add my lookup results together! Not only that but there's many totals I want to calculate and put into a new table! Very useful, I've watched a few of your videos and I'm a fan so I clicked the subscribe button for more excel tips :p

[@johnkempes5538]

Thank you Uncle, you are very Humble,,,

[@TheAbzy01]

Learned something new today, Thank you.

[@bharatputra108]

Very usefull thanks . Will sure learn many things from your videos

[@xtraordinaire]

Great stuff, Chandoo. Thanks!

[@chandoo_]

Glad you liked it!

[@utubeAgape]

Same here! Ever since Xlookup came on the scene, I stopped using VLookup AND index match - Xlookup is much more efficient!

[@chandoo_]

😎

[@sass520]

Sir first of all i would like to tell you tht your videos are amazing and very nicely explained, i also got a query wht does (* ) means here when u used in xlookup ?? Is it same like And condition in the filter video?

[@incredible421]

This is very helpful. Thanks for the video

[@Rood67]

3:47 into the video, and I stopped playback to subscribe. Great info that’s easy to follow, with practical examples.

[@chandoo_]

Welcome aboard Rood😀

[@razadigital92]

Super video and great information for digital world 🌍 .

[@damodaramgurram1905]

Good explanation Chandoo..

[@KeenyNewton]

Excellent! Vlookup is powerful but is painful if not done correctly. xlookup looks better.

[@andresfrancojunor]

Fantastic ! Thank you Chandoo !!

[@chandoo_]

Glad you liked it!

[@BhadriShashikanth]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing

[@yashmangupta]

Interesting to learn this new function. Can it return multiple date of joining based on the example in your video. If there are multiple people joining the same date? Thanks much appreciated 👍

[@jaganpreetsingh1842]

We can use choose() function with vlookup to give result which are on left side

[@Unbox9999]

Thank you so much chandu you saved me

[@abhiabhishek7942]

Thank you nice easy to understand tutorial

[@jeromegonzales3809]

woww nice vids, another learning :)

[@daprinceofdabay]

Index/match got its own function. Wow I didn’t even realize. Will start using this now!

[@chandoo_]

Welcome to the brave new world

[@mikedavies7662]

Awesome video!

[@jatinpalsingh5562]

awesome man, will save a lot of time and effort for me

[@chandoo_]

Glad I could help

[@jamiereife5581]

It would be nice if there was a “match formatting indicator” in the formula to match the formatting from where our result derives so that you don’t have to correct the formatting in your formula result. So if the formatting in the result column was a date or currency, a match formatting indicator would automatically ensure that your result matched the formatting of the column from where the result derived. This would be nice because almost nobody would want a date answer returned in a Juliane date or currency returned without commas.

[@surajvishwakarma9199]

Sir you are a real champion

[@thephunk1]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@chandoo_]

You're very welcome!

[@dhanflores2416]

Damn you just earned a new subscriber. This is a really powerful tool.

[@mahmoudsaeed1892]

Amazing, thank you

[@usmaniqbal1836]

Great Chandoo! 👍

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Usman ji.

[@shiroyasha_007]

Legends know that Chandoo has already made a video showing how he replaced index match with xlookup way back

[@chandoo_]

OG!!! Yes, I have few other XLOOKUP videos on the channel. But I feel that most of our new followers are not familiar with XLOOKUP. So I made another video (with more tips) :)

[@shiroyasha_007]

@@chandoo_ You are a Legend Chandoo. Keep them coming.

[@shylesambrose]

Brilliant, thanks

[@amirhd2080]

Simplypy to understand this way in Case by Case Thank chandoo

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Amir.

[@mikatu]

I am getting sick of these tips that only work in Office365. It is great, but why would I use a program that will never be mine? Anyway, great video and explanation.

[@nealbhakta9235]

Thank you so much for your hard work. I would like to confirm that xlookup is also in excel 2021 pro plus version.

[@chandoo_]

Woohoo... That is a good news indeed. I have switched to 365 many moons ago so not keeping up with fixed versions. Thanks for letting us know :)

[@Mrdayz]

Thank you, I found this useful. I have been using =ifna(index...(match), It works well but looks messy. I will use xlookup in the future. Thank you

[@chandoo_]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sanjayjha1966]

yes I also always use xlookup instead of vlookup, great experience sir

[@chandoo_]

The best!

[@NeutronStar9]

Always thought why vlookup doesn’t allow me to select the query column and return column and it took I don’t know how much since your video is news to me, thank you!

[@silvana11221122]

hi Chandoo hope you are well. I like how you dont have to say exact match etc... i just need to practice and change my habits... i still do some lotus 123 lol

[@chandoo_]

All good here Silvana... 😀 Wow, someone from Lotus times.

[@silvana11221122]

@@chandoo_ yes lol every time excel brings out a new version it hides our old lotus backstokes further and further away but i can still find some ha

[@mindlearn2981]

Thank you for this explanation. I have another scenario that I would like some clarification on. What if in Column A, I have e-mail addresses of people, and then in Column B, I have text with data in it as follows separated by comma's e.g. pizza, pasta, potatoes. E-mail adress 1 has pizza, potatoes, E-mail address 2 has pasta and E-mail 3 has pasta, potatoes. I would now like to make 3 additional separate columns Pizza and Pasta and Potatoes with in these columns the ' lookedup ' e-mail addresses. In the colunm name Pizza, only e-mail addres 1 would be mentioned. In Column Potatoes, E-mail 1 and E-mail 3 would be shown and so on. How to go about? Can this be done with XLOOKUP? Or is some other formula needed? Thank you for your reply!

[@tillytoad804]

Love this, no more iferror!

[@chandoo_]

YES!!!

[@prasadnaga9113]

Thanks for the video

[@hdreaming2315]

good shit bruh, keep it up

[@curious1731]

Very helpful

[@Scooby_D000]

Hi Chandoo, have you used Xlookup for multiple criteria, may 2D or 3D (ie. search for criteria that is vertical and horizontal to get the Return Value). Thank you for your nice work!

[@chandoo_]

I do. I explain these and many other advanced concepts in my mini-course here - chandoo.org/wp/lookups-for-data-analysis/

[@mrspongetv4236]

Hi sir. Can you help me? What i wanted in my ghant chart is that when i add a holiday, all activities will adjust even if the other activities did not fall onto the holiday date.. can it be possible?? Love the video by the way.

[@amanmalalo8653]

Awesome. Time saver

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Aman.

[@sachiniwickramasinghe1912]

Awesome!!! Thank you!!!!

[@chandoo_]

Welcome Sachini...

[@Adi-jk2ef]

Truly Amazing👍

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Adi... 😀

[@asukanta]

Thanks a lot boss

[@saikrishnapagadala7449]

Hi Chandoo, so basically only when we convert the range to table, we can return the entire row correct? Can we return a row when we are using normal data range instead of converting to table? Thanks in advance!

[@chandoo_]

You can. FILTER(a1:a10, b1:b10>5) returns the A1:A10 values where B column value is >5

[@avishekd4229]

Superb 🙂

[@rahulchandoria]

Getting lots of inspiration from you chandu. Keep uploading the new videos. Its my suggestion for you could you please make a playlist of Excel learning from A toZ videos. I use to share your video and channel to my friends but they are getting difficulty to start from where

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Rahul. I have many playlists on the channel on various themes. Check out kzbin.info/door/8uU_wruBMHeeRma49dtZKAplaylists/

[@teoxengineer]

Chando hi, good presentation. We can use Vlookup with different directions by using Choose function like =Vlookup(X,A1:C100,Choose({2,1},Array-1,Array-2),0). It provide us to go opposite direction like XLookUp. However, when we change column sequence or not sorted range, VLookUp is not giving us the correct result. So, I would like to learn just LookUp function because it is being used to find different matches as same value. How can we achieve it? Could you please prepare LookUp video for it. Thank you 🙏

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Emre... The VLOOKUP(..CHOOSE()) is a good trick and I've used it in the past. I suggest watching the FILTER video for this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKa3lZ1on5Jsgck

[@Mike-yv3ko]

For different matches of same value use instead: UNIQUE+FILTER (you can also use transpose to list values across)

[@jeisonsanchez4842]

Only issue with xlookup is that I can’t share the spreadsheet to people with older Excel versions. I have to think whether the file will be shared before I decide between vlookup and xlookup. Thanks for the awesome tips.

[@fawazkolaposulaiman1925]

You could break the links in your sheet, if you have to share and if other users don't need to understand the underlying function you used.

[@chandoo_]

That is a good point. Yeah, if I working with a client that doesn't have XLOOKUP, I just revert to either VLOOKUP or INDEX MATCH as needed.

[@judithalex2087]

Hi Chandoo, thank you for this!! XLOOKUP is a game changer. Just one issue- I just used it to return a date on the cell. However, the source data for that particular lookup value is blank. But the XLOOKUP returns 1/0/1900. Can you share how I can have the cell come out as blank if the source data is blank?

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Judith. Excel doesn't have true BLANK values. When a formula finds blank, it returns 0. Which for dates, treated as 1/0/1900. You can try ISBLANK(XLOOKUP(..)) to check if the result of XLOOKUP is indeed blank and then do something. Another technique is to use File > Options > Advanced > "Display options for this worksheet" > Show a zero in cells that have zero value and unchecking it. But it will also remove any actual zeros from the screen.

[@ruangkosongmovie6190]

Thankyou!

[@Svbp99]

I think it was mentioned already but I use variables for column number and this does not seem to be possible in xlookup.

[@shreyayerhs]

Hi Chandoo, What are the limitations of xlookup, if any?

[@deerajkumarkanala9145]

I have a filter for my column, and i am trying to select a keyword manually from the manually, so is there any option so that i can put this keyword in some cell and write some filter formula so that it will automatically filter the keyword from the list?

[@uddipannath4162]

You are simply amazing

[@chandoo_]

Thank you so much 😀 You are awesome too :)

[@lonebadatel]

Superb video

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Subranjit...

[@yuthsumaleewichai4226]

Hello Chandoo from 2:47, if there are more than one person starting working on the same date, what results would Xlookup will return? Thanks for making the videos about excel.

[@chandoo_]

Xlookup (and all other lookups in Excel) just return the first matching value. If you want to see all results, you can use FILTER. Here is a video about that - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKa3lZ1on5Jsgck

[@DataNarrator]

first ......I am learning excel from your channel. it's just great.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Mayuri...

[@mymatemartin]

Can do Chandoo does it again. Fantastic video.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks again!

[@vishnunair8790]

Hi sir i beend using xlookup for while but at some point even xlookup fails example if we want to lookup value for one single column xlookup fails but vlookup runs fine example in one workbook i have employee id and in another work book i have same employee and want to get which are duplicate via formula with out using condition formatting function so xlookupfails or may be i dont knw how to reconstruct the formula could you help

[@amitpahwak]

Thank you

[@mrazimsagar]

You are an angle of education. Just a wish, "Allah bless you"

[@chandoo_]

😊 Thank you Mr Azim

[@syarifairlangga4608]

Xlookup is just so modern and easy. Data source also doesnt need to be on the left but can be anywhere. Basically just click n click n done. Microsoft need implement new modern formula like this.

[@chandoo_]

and that is why, It is my new favourite function of Excel

[@maverickriderJB]

One question, if we have multiple items in lookup array with same name will xlookup return all corresponding values. I tried and it brings only the first one.

[@oa3999]

how to use it to retrieve multiple values from the same column, is it possible? I use INDEX and ROW and it's so long formula

[@Mahesh-fg3or]

Wow too good formula...

[@HBplaces]

thank you

[@Azhar_Khan383]

Sir because of your videos I have learn a lot in excel, all credit goes to you. Thanks & keep awesome posting videos.

[@chandoo_]

Wow.. thanks Azhar. :)

[@toto7002]

What if I have more than one return, how can make sure there are no other value may match the criteria, assuming the look up not unique

[@rishalchand9510]

I totally agree with you.

[@chandoo_]

😎😎😎

[@foodcity9875]

Nice

[@chandrashekarsheshadri7231]

Great video. Getting error with # Name? using excel 2010. do not work in 2010 version.

[@bhupendrakumar2976]

Great 👍

[@chandoo_]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@asifkhan-zt3dl]

From few days when ever I use xlookup, in data if i have error result after that would be error in rest of the line items. Any idea why?