Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › What is VLOOKUP used for in Importing Data in Salesforce? Salesforce® Discussions What is VLOOKUP used for in Importing Data in Salesforce? Posted by Deepak on April 13, 2020 at 3:05 PM What is VLOOKUP used for in Importing Data in Salesforce? Ratnesh replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply 1 Reply Ratnesh Member April 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM A good use case for the VLOOKUP function is to relate data when there is not an External ID field to work with. Log In to reply. Public All Members My Connections Only Me PublicAll MembersMy ConnectionsOnly Me Public All Members My Connections Only Me