How to use the h look up in excel worksheet ???

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Anil Dhawan

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Use INDEX + MATCH combination to get rid of VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP. :)
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Horizontal lockup
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Hi Sandeep, Are you aware of Vlookup? If yes its quite similar to it but it search the data horizontally......
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Hi Sandeep, Hlooup is used when your table array is in horizontal manner.
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It's just like Vlookp function , only the difference is Vlookup Picks "Vertical" data and Hlookup picks "Horizontal"... Vlookup : This will pick the data from cells A1,A2,A3,A4,A4.... Hlookup : This will pick the data from cells A1,B2,B3,B4,B4....
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Use HLOOKUP when your comparison values are located in a row across the top of a table of data, and you want to look down a specified number of rows. SYNTAX:=HLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, row_index_num, ) Evrything will be same as vlook up except a difference that it works horizontally and vlook...
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Use HLOOKUP when your comparison values are located in a row across the top of a table of data, and you want to look down a specified number of rows. SYNTAX:=HLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, row_index_num, [range_lookup]) Evrything will be same as vlook up except a difference that it works horizontally and vlook up works vertically. read less
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Hlookup is used to look up the data from other location, could be same worksheet/workbook or other. So there are few lookup function in excel like, Match,Vlookup and Hlookup . When data is in horizontal format we used Hlookup to get some value based on any specific lookup value
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Hlookup is use for horizontal lookup . month Sales april 4000 may 6000 june 12000 july 3000 For using the hlookup first u should select the column heading...
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Hlookup is use for horizontal lookup . month Sales april 4000 may 6000 june 12000 july 3000 For using the hlookup first u should select the column heading means click on Month(that is called lookup value, lookup array you have two column month and sales (click on the month to till 3000 that is called table array,than row index number mean you wANT TO SEE JUNE SO U TYPE 4 THAN YOU WANT EXACT MATCH YOU CAN TYPE FALSE OR 0) . =HLOOKUP(A3,A3:B6,3,0) read less
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For Hlook the datatable in which are looking up, should be horizontally arranged, i.e. It should be in Rows. For example if it is a menu of product prices. The Names of products will be in one and row and prices will be in the corresponding columns in another row. Then you can look up for a particular...
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For Hlook the datatable in which are looking up, should be horizontally arranged, i.e. It should be in Rows. For example if it is a menu of product prices. The Names of products will be in one and row and prices will be in the corresponding columns in another row. Then you can look up for a particular value using the Hlookup function read less
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