Probably for beginners level you must have practiced the formula from the same sheet itself.

Fetching the data from another worksheet or from another workbook is slightly different using VLOOKUP function in excel.

As soon as the cell in the other worksheet is selected it automatically shows you the sheet name along with cell reference of that sheet.

Vlookup On Excel How To Fetch The

Now we will see how to fetch the data from a different workbook.

If you delete the workbook accidently you will lose all the data.

Here we look at how to use VLOOKUP from a different sheet or workbook along with practical examples and downloadable excel templates.

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As we all know Vlookup searches for the given value in a table and brings the value of that column or the column which is in the right side.

That means by default Vlookup can look right side in the table.

In this article let us understand how to use Vlookup to the left side search.

CHOOSE with Vlookup can do much more than this, i will explain that in our next post.

The details about how to use this formula is explained below.

To overcome this issue, alternate formula is combination of INDEX and MATCH to perform same task easily.

MATCH function searches for the given value in a range and return the position for matching value.

INDEX MATCH is a powerful formula which will do everything which Vlookup dose and much more.

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