This is the same question that you asked and I answered yesterday, albeit
with two less conditions. What is wrong with the previous answer?

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this is my problem:


A B
1 ann
2 bob
3 catie
1 ann


in clm B, the names are in a drop-down list . So in the last row, once
ann is

assigned, it is possible in A4 that it returns the number that has been
previously

assigned to ann? so if i key in catie in B5, A5 should return 3.


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