Many Excel users work with large amounts of data every day. Maintaining oversight or finding the right information quickly is time consuming and can result in errors. That is why the Microsoft program offers practical reference and lookup functions which can quickly produce the correct results. One such function is HLOOKUP which searches for specific values within a user-defined cell range. It starts the search on the left in the first cell and continues to the right until it reaches the end of the range defined in the function.
HLOOKUP can be used in many situations. For example, imagine that you are selling many different products and want to record your sales in a table at the end of the month. In this situation, it would be tedious to have to look up each product in a price list in order to enter their respective prices individually. Using the Excel HLOOKUP function, you can simply skip this step. The only requirement is that the products in your price list are arranged horizontally. If they are, Excel will enter the prices with the appropriate syntax on its own.