{"id":4922,"date":"2017-02-02T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:06:04","slug":"smart-lookup-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/smart-lookup-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were times when I was working in a\u00a0<a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/free-excel-templates-and-spreadsheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spreadsheet\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">spreadsheet<\/a> and I had to do a quick internet search to understand some of the words in my cells.<\/p>\n<p>The process was, copy the text, paste on my browser, and click search.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know that in\u00a0<strong>Excel 2016<\/strong>, there is a feature called\u00a0<strong>Smart Lookup!\u00a0<\/strong>Smart Lookup allows me to make word searches inside Excel!<\/p>\n<p>Let us say we want to know more about these names in our spreadsheet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-01.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-01.png\" alt=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\" width=\"233\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NneufpUD-AA?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\"> download excel workbook <i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">Smart-Lookup.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The steps are very straightforward, which are outlined below:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0Pick first the name or cell containing the text you want to search<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-01.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-01.png\" alt=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\" width=\"233\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>Go to\u00a0<strong>Review &gt; Smart Lookup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-02.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-02.png\" alt=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\" width=\"934\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-02.png 934w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-02-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-02-768x141.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 3<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>You can now see my picture and details inside Excel which is using Bing&#8217;s web search inside the Smart Lookup pane! Thanks\u00a0<strong>Smart Lookup!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-03.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-03.png\" alt=\"Smart Lookup in Excel 2016\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-03.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-03-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Smart-Lookup-03-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There were times when I was working in a\u00a0spreadsheet and I had to do a quick internet search to understand some of the words in my cells. The process was, copy the text, paste on my browser, and click search. Little did I know that in\u00a0Excel 2016, there is a feature called\u00a0Smart Lookup!\u00a0Smart Lookup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[194,179],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}