If you can get the Internal Revenue Service income tax tables in a format that Microsoft Excel can read (see Resources for one source), you can use the VLOOKUP and MATCH functions of the software to pull data out of those tables quickly and easily. VLOOKUP is a table search function that scans down the first column until it finds a matching item and then cross-references to a column to the right in the table to find the corresponding value. You can use MATCH to determine the column of the table to be searched by matching text entered against existing column headers.. Tips Writer Bio
