XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP: When to Switch and What to Watch Out For If you’ve been using VLOOKUP for years, switching to XLOOKUP feels like finally getting a power tool after years with a hand drill. But ‘XLOOKUP is better’ isn’t a complete answer — it’s available only in Excel 365/2021 and Google Sheets (since 2023),…
Reconciliation sounds like an accounting term, and it kind of is — but the task comes up everywhere. You have a customer list from your CRM and another from your billing system, and you need to know which records match, which are missing, and where the data disagrees. Or you’ve exported the same report from…
There’s a special kind of dread that comes with opening a CSV export and seeing that someone entered phone numbers as “(555) 123-4567” in some rows, “+15551234567” in others, and “555.123.4567” in the rest. Or that “John Smith” and “john smith” and ” John Smith ” are apparently three different customers in your database. Messy…
