Tired of the same old VLOOKUP in Excel? In this blog, I’ll explain five clever Excel lookup tricks that make Excel formulas more powerful for everyday tasks. You’ll learn how to combine XLOOKUP and SUM in one step, perform left lookups with VLOOKUP and set up fuzzy matches for misspelled entries. I’ll also cover how to return multiple results when you have duplicates and even categorize data with approximate matching for commission rates.