There are many ways to find and retrieve data from a table or range based on a lookup value. In fact, because Microsoft often comes up with new, modernized alternatives, there are too many ways! So, ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...

I am in an ongoing debate with my technical managers regarding accessing lookup tables and he keeps waving the "best practices" mantra at me but offers nothing concrete, I have several lookup tables ...