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There's an Excel community out there that continually wants to learn new tricks, and there are lots of people just discovering Excel's capabilities who want to join it. The most popular posts about the current version of Excel reflect that mix. But for the new Excel, the popularity ranking reflects the enthusiasms and demands that Excel professionals face. They want to know how the new version makes their lives easier, especially those features that you let you work from anywhere. Check out...

VLOOKUP Week has ended. The brainchild of Excel MVP Bill Jelen, the idea inspired all things VLOOKUP, including VLOOKUP odes, haikus, vampires, and a way to track shark attacks. Setting all fun aside--Excel experts created a crazy number of useful and innovative applications of VLOOKUP in seven days. The week might be over, but thanks to the enthusiasm of the Excel community and to the Web, the information will continue to instruct Excel users at all levels of expertise. So thanks, Bill, and thanks...

Bill Jellen found it. Erica Rhein started it. She posted a comment on Facebook declaring her complete dependence on VLOOKUP. "I use Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP every day. I would be screwed at my job without it." To Bill's formula-possessed mind this statement equals a love poem. So he decided today's VLOOKUP Week door prize would be the best Ode to VLOOKUP. Check out the haikus and poems about undying VLOOKUP love already submitted, then or add your own by entering it as a comment...

People are crazy for Excel's VLOOKUP function, and why not? Among other things, VLOOKUP is known for its rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. In all seriousness, VLOOKUP is one of the most widely used, versatile functions in Excel. You typically use it to quickly look up and extract specific bits of information from a big list of data. In the following example, I've instructed VLOOKUP to search for a page ID on another worksheet, find a corresponding page name, and plunk...

Today’s post is brought to you by Anneliese Wirth, a writer on Office.com. On Office.com , the term “VLOOKUP” frequently bubbles up in our list of high-volume search queries. My job is to figure out why this is and what specific information people are actually looking for when they type “VLOOKUP” into the search box in Help or on our web site. The “VLOOKUP” query appears to represent a bunch of different questions. Certainly, one of the main ones has to do...