it doesn't say a very important thing, even though we talk about <\/span>Google.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
It searches, or lookups, only on the right. If we search for a value on the left, we can use MATCH inside INDEX, then\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n=INDEX(left_range;MATCH(value_to_search;search_range,search_type);position)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
If one tries, in vain, the vertical lookup to search on the left, it returns NA and you have to search <\/span>all <\/b>the causes of this error. This case is certainly rarer than other cases, but as various scientific disciplines suggest, the rarer an event is, the more damage it can cause (risk-magnitude). In this case it wastes a lot of time.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Another solution, =XLOOKUP<\/p>\n
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When I talk in my videos about the importance of data and\/or process, code documentation, I am not saying that EVERYONE can potentially make this mistake. In this article I address in an extremely concise way another point of failure of the vertical search formula, =VLOOKUP which, in the case of Google spreadsheet documentation does not ...<\/p>\n
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