Friday, January 29, 2021

Google Sheets - Lookup the Last Matching Value

If you've worked with most lookup functions (like VLOOKUP, LOOKUP, etc.) it will bring back the first matching value in the range you selected. However there may be times when you want to see the last matching value from your lookups. In this video it will go through two examples of how to get the last matching value from a lookup with Google Sheets. One will be using the LOOKUP function (along with other functions) and the other will be a crazy combination of INDEX, IF, ARRAYFORMULA, ROW AND LARGE.

Monday, January 25, 2021

Unpivot Multiple Columns | Added Columns Changes

To unpivot a report or table used to be a difficult process, but it's become a much easier process with Power Query feature in Excel. Still there are things to consider when using the unpivot feature because when column changes with adds it DOES depend on how the unpivot is done and where the column is added.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Google Sheets - Perform a Lookup [3 Examples]

In most spreadsheet applications there are multiple ways to do the same thing. Google sheets is not exception as it provides you many ways to accomplish similar tasks. A common task in most spreadsheets is looking up values or records based on set criteria. There are a few functions we can use in Google Sheets to do a lookup and this video will cover three functions that can accomplish lookups: VLOOKUP, the INDEX / MATCH combination and FILTER (though the FILTER function is not technically a lookup function it can still be used to lookup records).