But we learned in this tutorial how to change it to use VLOOKUP with multiple workbooks. VLOOKUP fails to perform lookup across multiple workbooks in its general format.
VLOOKUP is the most helpful function for lookup operations. The VLOOKUP formula helps to look up for the ID for milk in the prices workbook. This will return the sales for milk in F5 using the two workbooks.
Product Price Workbook for VLOOKUP with Multiple Workbooks We can find the price for Milk in the first workbook using VLOOKUP with a reference to the second workbook.įigure 3. The second workbook Prices.xlsx has the prices for the corresponding IDs. Product Information Workbook for VLOOKUP with Multiple Workbooks The first workbook Products.xlsx has the product name and Ids.įigure 2. It has two different workbooks to store the product information. The following example consists of a product sales data set. =VLOOKUP(lookup_value ,sheet!range,col_num,match_type) Setting up Data Example of How to Use VLOOKUP with Multiple Workbooks The Generic Formula to use VLOOKUP across Multiple Workbooks This tutorial will walk through how to VLOOKUP with multiple workbooks.įigure 1. One of the many limitations of VLOOKUP is its inability to work with multiple workbooks. VLOOKUP is one of the primary function used for lookup and reference in Excel. How to use VLOOKUP with Multiple Workbooks
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