MATCH Function
MATCH Function Summary In MS Excel there are lot of lookup functions that can find a certain value in a range of cells, MATCH is one of them. Basically, it identifies a relative position or location of any item in a given range in the cells. But it has also a limitation that if there is a duplicate value, it gives the result which is found in the first number. MATCH can find or you can say that it supports only approximate, exact and Wildcard (* ?) matches. MATCH is an Excel function used to locate the first position of a lookup value in a row, column or table. Often the INDEX function is combined with MATCH to retrieve the value at the position returned by MATCH. Purpose Get the position of an item in an array Return value A number representing a position in lookup_array. Syntax =MATCH (lookup_value, lookup_array, [match_type]) Arguments • lookup_value - The value to match in lookup_array. • lookup_array - A range of cells or an array reference. • match_type - [This is optiona