Spreadsheets are supposed to save time, but sometimes they just make things messier. I hated digging through endless menus until I found a handful of formulas that do the heavy lifting for me.

Google Sheets has a built-in MATCH function, which you can use to search for anything in a defined cell range. The formula's syntax is =MATCH (key, range, type).

You can use VLOOKUP with Google Sheets similar to how the search function is used to find information in Excel.