🔎 How to Use VLOOKUP with Multiple Criteria in Excel | Easy Formula + INDEX MATCH Alternative
Want to use VLOOKUP with multiple criteria in Excel? By default, Excel’s VLOOKUP can only check one column at a time — but with a clever formula, you can search across two or more columns.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
✅ How to combine two columns for a multi-criteria VLOOKUP
✅ The limitations of this approach and when it might break
✅ Why INDEX + MATCH is a cleaner, more flexible solution for multiple conditions
VLOOKUP Example Formula: =VLOOKUP(lookup_value_1 & lookup_value_2, table_array, col_index, FALSE)
INDEX + MATCH Multiple Criteria Example: =INDEX(return_range, MATCH(1, (criteria_range1=criteria1)*(criteria_range2=criteria2), 0))
📹 Related Videos:
INDEX MATCH Tutorial → • 🔎 VLOOKUP vs INDEX MATCH in Excel | Practi...
VLOOKUP Basics (Microsoft Guide) → https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/o...
Lookup Functions (VLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH) → https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/o...
Time Codes:
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - VLOOKUP Using 2 Columns
2:40 - INDEX MATCH Using Multiple Criteria
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