Excel Tutorial – HLOOKUP

The HLOOKUP function in Excel allows you to search for a value in the top row of a table and return a value from a row below the top row based on the column number. This can be useful if you have a large table of data and you want to quickly retrieve a specific value within that table.

To use the HLOOKUP function, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Select the cell where you want the result of the HLOOKUP function to appear.
2. Type “=HLOOKUP(” (without the quotes) into the cell.
3. Specify the value that you want to search for in the top row of the table. This should be a number or a string of text enclosed in quotation marks.
4. Type a comma and then specify the range of cells that contains the table that you want to search. The top row of the table should contain the values that you want to search for.
5. Type a comma and then specify the row number of the value that you want to retrieve. The first row in the table is considered row 1.
6. Type a comma and then specify whether the search should be performed in a case-sensitive manner. If the search should be case-sensitive, set this parameter to TRUE. If the search should not be case-sensitive, set this parameter to FALSE.
7. Close the parenthesis by typing “)”.

For example, if you wanted to search for the value “apple” in the top row of the table A1:C3 and return the value in the second row of the same column, you could use the following formula: “=HLOOKUP(“apple”, A1:C3, 2, FALSE)”. This will return the value in cell B2 if “apple” is found in the top row of the table A1:C3.

I hope this tutorial has been helpful in understanding how to use the HLOOKUP function in Excel.