Most Excel lookup functions return the first match, but XLOOKUP can reverse the search direction to return the latest record.

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Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wondering why your data retrieval isn’t working as expected? For years, Excel users have relied on VLOOKUP, a familiar and straightforward ...

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The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

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