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How to LOOKUP the data you





          want to find in an Excel range









          Many options exist to search for                  A         rticles about looking up data in Excel are written all
          data in Excel, but what do you do                           the time. Indeed, several such articles have
                                                                      appeared in FM magazine.
          if the data is in a range?                                    I should know. I wrote them.
                                                                        Those articles covered numerous ways to find
                                                            data in Excel, but there is one common problem I have yet to
          By Liam Bastick, FCMA, CGMA                       explore: How do you look up data over a range?
                                                              Let’s find out.
       IMAGE BY LUCHSCHEN/ISTOCK                            Imagine you are marking an exam, scoring candidates’ marks
                                                            A sample example

                                                            out of 100, which has the following grading system defined.
                                                            Any score of 85 or above gains an “A*” grade, a score between
                                                            70 and below 85 (84 for simplicity) rates an “A”, a score
                                                            between 60 and under 70 scores a “B”, and so on, as shown in


          24  I  FM MAGAZINE  I  June 2022                  the screenshot “Exam Marks”.
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