Looking up data in excel 2013 is a fun thing yet many students find it difficult to search for data in excel due to arcane explanations provided in help files and tutorials quotlooking upquot simply means to search a particular value from a spreadsheet or workbook against a particular value that we know before hand it can be likened to looking up a word in a dictionary or a record in a database excel makes it easy to search for values both in rows and columns while there