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If you're using Google Sheets, the QUERY function [1] can do all kinds of lookups. For complex logic, I find its SQLish syntax a lot more readable than mixtures of VLOOKUP and IF and other functions (but that might just be me). So, um, anyone here on the Office team who can get QUERY into Excel?

[1]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en

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My office is split between Excel and Sheets users. I was once trying to mash-up my Sheets knowledge with an Excel colleague. I told him it might be easier to accomplish his task with Sheets because query() uses a SQL-like syntax. I told him Excel doesn't have that. He responded, "lmao you can do that with vb". I looked up instructions on how to that and realized he had no idea what he was missing.

Anything that requires VB is not friendly. Of course there's a sheets equivalent using javascript, which you can say the same thing about

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