VLOOKUP, one of the most useful Microsoft Excel functions, is also available on Google Sheets. Here's how to use VLOOKUP to sift through Sheets data.

If you’ve added the same data more than once by mistake on a spreadsheet or you’re simply looking to find duplicate data, Google Sheets lets you highlight them.

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

Install the Remove Duplicates add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace. In your sheet, click Extensions, then Remove Duplicates, and choose: Find Duplicates or Uniques.

We show you how to highlight duplicates in Google Sheets using the COUNTIF and ARRAYFORMULA functions under the conditional format rules.

You can do a lot in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, beyond the obvious spreadsheet-style organization and data collating. A lot of this is tied to both of their programming-like functions that ...

Learn how Google Sheets gives you tools to sort ranges, compare cells, and remove duplicates quickly.

How to Use VLookup With Different Sheets on Excel. Excel's VLOOKUP function searches an array of cells for data you choose, returning data from the cell next to the one that it finds.

Note that it is also possible to use VLOOKUP in Excel to find duplicate data. Getting to grips with these advanced features turns what appears to be a plain grid of numbers into a powerful tool.