DGET Function in EXCEL.

Excel’s DGET function is used to locate specific information in a table or database. It is an abbreviation for “Database Get.” This function is very helpful, when you have a large list of data and want to retrieve a specific piece of information from it.

This is how it works:

1. Create a Table: First, you must create a data table in your Excel worksheet. This table should include column headings (such as “Name,” “Age,” “Salary,” and so on) as well as rows containing the actual data. Consider it a mini-database.
2. Setup Criteria: After that, you specify your criteria. This means you tell Excel what you want to find. If you have a table of employees, for example, you might want to find the salary of a specific employee whose name you know.
3. Use the DGET Function: You can now use the DGET function to find the information you’re looking for. You give the DGET function three things:

4. Result: Excel then searches the table for matching information based on your criteria and displays the results.

Here’s an illustration:

Assume you have a table with employee information that looks like this:

Above Figure has a table in which we can apply DGET Formula.

Here we have Three Option for DGET formula.

Database: Database is your full table but there should be heading in table/data.

Field: Field means that from which column to extract the value?

Criteria: It means Which data value to search. But the heading also has to be given along with it.

Here If you change EmpID then change Salary.

Remember: There should be a unique value in the field.