Learn how to use Excel’s INDEX and MATCH formulas to perform advanced lookups and data retrieval efficiently.

Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on certain arguments you input. However, combining—or nesting—functions ...

Index, Match, and Index Match In Excel, the INDEX function returns an item from a specific position (in a list, table, database).

The XMATCH function was introduced to Microsoft Excel in 2021 as an upgrade from the MATCH function. The default arguments in the XMATCH syntax are more intuitive than those in the MATCH syntax ...

There's one trick, though, that separates the quants from the interns. That trick is Index/Match, a function that can find any value in any spreadsheet.

Once you have mastered VLOOKUP in Excel it's time to move on to INDEX/MATCH. This formula combination gives the same results but without the problems of VLOOKUP.