Question

I have table in Excel where stored some data about employees in one row (usedID, salary, bonus, etc). And next page is receipt where I should retrieve data by userID. How can I do this?

Is there any specific function that let me grab appropriate data by unique usedID?
On the page receipt I will provide usedID or even cell id where it placed. For example, I know that userID placed in cell B2, and value that I need to get in cell C2. So this function should be like

(=[providedId].replace('B', 'C'))

And so on for other data. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Example of use of VLOOKUP:

Imagine you have a table like this

USER ID   Salary
  ms122    12345
  ms153    54321

And these are in the range A1:B3

Then you can look up the salary of an employee with

=VLOOKUP("MS123",A2:B3,2)