How to Use VLOOKUP in Google Sheets VLOOKUP allows you to create your own little search box that can return customized results from a big dataset. With the dataset open, choose the section or page ...

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

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.

The trick to using Excel's VLOOKUP effectively is knowing what commands and values to use in what order.