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Excel Performance Showdown: XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP on Large Datasets

For decades, VLOOKUP was the king of Excel functions. It was the first “advanced” formula many of us learned. But in 2019, Microsoft released XLOOKUP, promising to be the “one function to rule them all.” We know XLOOKUP is more flexible—it defaults to exact match, searches left-to-right and right-to-left, and handles errors gracefully. But is…

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