TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

And now we arrive at xlookup, the “successor to the iconic vlookup function,” as Microsoft’s Joe McDaid describes. Here’s how it works: ...

Microsoft has announced that the XLOOKUP function in Excel, meant to supersede both HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP, is now generally available to Office 365 customers after months of testing with Insiders.

XLOOKUP was introduced to Excel later than INDEX and MATCH, so it's a more refined way to complete this one-dimensional lookup task.

A little from column A, a little from column B: XLOOKUP is the new, easier way to retrieve information across Excel spreadsheets.