XLOOKUP in Excel

#XLOOKUP is a powerful function in Microsoft Excel that allows you to search for a value in a range of cells and return a corresponding value from another range of cells. It was introduced in Excel 365 and is available in all versions of Excel that have been released after that.

To use the #XLOOKUP function, you need to provide four pieces of information:

The value you want to search for

The range of cells you want to search in

The range of cells that contains the values you want to return

Optional: criteria for the search, such as an approximate match or an exact match

Here's an example of how to use the #XLOOKUP function:

Assume that you have a list of student names in column A and their corresponding grades in column B. You want to find the grade of a specific student, whose name is in 

specific student, whose name is in cell D2. You can use the #XLOOKUP function as follows:

=XLOOKUP(D2,A2:A10,B2:B10)

This formula will search for the name in cell D2 within the range A2:A10, and return the corresponding grade from the range B2:B10. If the name is not found, the function will return an #N/A error.

Note that the #XLOOKUP function is similar to the #VLOOKUP function, but it offers more features and flexibility. It can also be used to perform left-to-right lookups, search for multiple criteria, and handle errors more gracefully.