XLookup - Sorting data with headers

[JMoney]

A co-worker asked me to fix her VLookup today because she had added and removed columns. I was excited to show her XLookup, and created formulas in her data set used XLookup instead of a VLookup. It worked beautifully, except when she showed me that she needs to sort random sets of data in the range. The sort returned with the XLookup referring to the wrong lookup cell. I changed it back to a VLookup, and it sorted normally. I am still learning the XLookup, and wanted to know why the sort by date was not only not sorting the dates, but changing the formula to pick up the wrong row? I

 

[GraH]

Hi, potentially you also have the new dynamic array functions available as well. If sorting seems to mess up the XLOOKUP (which it should not according to my understanding, it is able to always look up an exact match) you might want to wrap a SORT/SORTBY function. I have neither available for the moment, so I can't experiment unfortunately. I'm just thinking out loud here.