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Default I'm trying to figure out what would work best for data entry and retreval.

That is correct. If it isn't, use a combination of index and match

=Index(columnA, match(value,columnB,0),1)

as an example.

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Dave if I'm not mistaken VLOOKUP only works if your "standard" is in the

far
left column.

Marc

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check out VLOOKUP, there are lots of posts of this in your forum and in
the many excel websites such as he

http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html


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