If you need to reconcile batches of records in Microsoft Excel, this simple VLOOKUP() solution offers a quick and easy way to find records in one batch that are missing from another.

To use VLOOKUP, you need four arguments: lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, and range_lookup. Lookup_value is the value you want to find in the first column of the table.

What we want to accomplish: We want to understand how to use VLOOKUP to find text across multiple sheets: Using the simple VLOOKUP formula ; ... (convert it into an absolute cell reference). Now, this ...