One function that anyone looking to master the spreadsheet program needs to know is VLOOKUP. It's easily one of the handiest ways to sort through and understand large reams of data.

If you need to reconcile batches of records in Microsoft Excel, this simple VLOOKUP() solution offers a quick and easy way to find records in one batch that are missing from another.

Microsoft Excel's VLOOKUP function fetches data from different cells. It searches an array for a specific value and returns the value of a cell adjacent to it. Normally, VLOOKUP retrieves this ...