You can use VLOOKUP with Google Sheets similar to how the search function is used to find information in Excel.

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that ...

Microsoft Excel's VLookup formula permits you to search large spreadsheets for specific data, one of Excel's lookup and reference functions. You can use VLookup between sheets within an Excel ...

But if you only do that once a year, you’ll probably have to research how to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel. For the third most used function in Excel (after SUM and AVERAGE), VLOOKUP is complex.

VLOOKUP, one of the most useful Microsoft Excel functions, is also available on Google Sheets. Here's how to use VLOOKUP to sift through Sheets data.