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hi and welcome back to Excel Wiz In this
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video I'm going to show you how to use H
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lookup in Excel and show you the
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difference between H lookup and V lookup
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started H lookup This is a function in
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Excel that is normally used to search
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for a value in the top row of a table
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and then it returns a value from the
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column in a specified row For example in
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this video I'm going to show you how we
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can use hookup to check for the value in
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metric tons of soya beans for the food
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commodity soy beans So as you can see
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soy soybeans is on the first row while
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500,000 metric tons is on the same
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column So this is how it goes So we'll
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start by typing in our H lookup
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formula H lookup formula just like the
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VLOOKUP has four parameters The first
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one is the lookup value This is um this
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is now the value that you're going to
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search for in the first table in the
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sorry in the first row of this table For
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example our first parameter is going to
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uh I3 which is soybeans Our second
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parameter is going to be that uh the
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data the range of cells that's
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containing the data In this case we're
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going to now select all our
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cells Our third parameter is now the row
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number in the table from which the
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matching value must be matched So the
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row starts from here 1 2 3 4 5 So our
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value that we need returned is on row
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number five So the parameter is going to
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be five And the last parameter
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now is the exact match or the
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approximate match In this case please
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ensure that you always put false which
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which means that you're looking for the
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exact match unless you have a really
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good reason as to why you want to use
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true which is approximate match So in
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this case let's go on with
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false and enter As you can see the value
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that we are looking for is 500,000
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metric tons which is what uh we've we
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had with H lookup So that's how you
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actually do hook up in Excel So just
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ensure that you know the parameters and
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how to use them It's the same thing with
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VLOOKUP I'll just use the same example
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just to show you the the difference
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So with VLOOKUP this is now used to
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search The VLOOKUP function in Excel is
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now used to search for a specific value
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in the first column of a table and then
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returns it returns a value from the same
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row in a different column For example
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let's use a different food commodity In
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this case we want to know um the metric
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oil And now we will use VLOOKUP for this
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So let's start with the VLOOKUP
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formula And as I said before the VLOOKUP
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formula and the H lookup formula are the
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same The parameters are the same Just
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the only difference is the arrangement
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of the data In VLOOKUP your data must be
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um arranged in vertical order while in H
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lookup your data has to be arranged in a
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horizontal way So the first parameter is
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going to be the value to search for in
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the first row In this case our value is
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palm oil which is B10 Our second
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parameter is going to be the data uh the
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cell the data range which is going to be
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all the data in our table Select it That
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parameter is going to be the um column
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number in the table from which the
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matching value must be returned Our
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column first column 1 2 3 4 5 We can
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actually look for the import country
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uh for palm oil it's going to be 1 2 3 4
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We are looking for the Netherlands so
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it's going to be four And now our
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last parameter is going to be false
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which should be the exact match And
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there you go So the value that we
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actually looking for is the Netherlands
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And that's it If you have a question
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regarding a VLOOKUP formula or H lookup
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formula please feel free to leave a text
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down in the comment section and see you
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again next time Thank you for watching
