What does the VLOOKUP in MS Excel function do?

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Basically, VLOOKUP lets you search for specific information in your spreadsheet. For example, if you have a list of products with prices, you could search for the price of a specific item.
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It's used to Lookup data vertically. you can ping me if you want to learn deeply.
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This is Vertical look up of data method other is H look up horizontal look up of data
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It allows to find particular words as mentioned by us in the function in a vertical selection of cells
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VLookup helps to lookup for a value in a table and return the required column from the table. For more info, please contact us. Thanks, Team Excelytics Ameerpet, Hyderabad.
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