You wouldn't use IF for this you would use something like VLOOKUP, eg:-

assuming your table was in say A1:B9

A B
1 101 abc
2 102 bcd
3 103 cde
4 104 def
5 105 efg
6 106 fgh
7 107 ghi
8 108 hij
9 109 ijk

and in say cell D1 you had the value of 104 and in E1 you wanted the
corresponding value from col B that matched that value in Col A.

In cell E1 you would simply use the formula

=VLOOKUP(D1,A1:B9,2,0)

which says, take the value in D1, look it up in the leftmost column of the
range A1:B9 and then when you match it exactly (0 at end denotes exact match)
give me the value from the 2nd column (Hence the 2), in that range.

Regards
Ken...................




"Jenny" wrote:

Help, anyone?
I am trying to nest 18 x IF functions to automatically pick up a text value
for a numeric result. I have ranked 18 x actual values in 3 x cell in a
column for my top 3 x performers (value of sales). what I now want to do is
on the next row have the name of that person appear under that specific
ranking number according to the actual sales (so I don't need to scroll up to
see who produced that value). Nesting only allows me 7 x IF's. Help anyone
???