How to use the Excel HLookup function — Microsoft Office | Basic and Advanced Excel Formulas and Functions

How to use the Excel HLookup function — Microsoft Office | Basic and Advanced Excel Formulas and Functions

  • The Microsoft Excel — Hlookup function is used to look up for across row. It stands for “Horizontal Lookup”.
  • It is used when your data and values are located in a row across the top of a table of data when you have to look up for a specified number of rows.
  • HLOOKUP in Excel for basic users and advance users.
  • The Hlookup function works for a certain value in a row or table array to get the the results from row wise data.

The syntax of Hlookup Function:- 

  • The value or search term for which you have to look up
  • The data range or table array from where the hlookup function has to find the match data
  • The number of row or raw index number which you want to get as the result
  • 0 or FALSE for an exact match with the value your are looking for; 1 or TRUE for an approximate match

Syntax: HLOOKUP([value], [range], [row number], [false or true])


Let’s get started with an example - Here is a data of students marks arrange raw wise. Now I am going to look up for student Bagi’s marks obtained in the subject of accounts as follow :



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