INDEX MATCH in Excel — Why Finance Professionals Use This Instead of VLOOKUP

In this video, you'll learn how to use INDEX MATCH in Excel — the most powerful and flexible lookup formula combination used by finance professionals, investment bankers, and advanced analysts around the world.

If you've mastered VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP and want to level up, INDEX MATCH is the next step. Unlike VLOOKUP, it can look in any direction, return values from any column, and never breaks when you insert or delete columns in your spreadsheet. It also works in all versions of Excel — including older versions that don't support XLOOKUP.

✅ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO:
▸ What the INDEX function does — and its syntax: =INDEX(array, row_num, [col_num])
▸ What the MATCH function does — and its syntax: =MATCH(lookup_value, lookup_array, [match_type])
▸ How to combine them: =INDEX(return_range, MATCH(lookup_value, lookup_range, 0))
▸ Why INDEX MATCH beats VLOOKUP — lookup from right to left, no column index hardcoding
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Видео INDEX MATCH in Excel — Why Finance Professionals Use This Instead of VLOOKUP канала Taofiki Kowiy