I'm guessing you'll be able to use the VLOOKUP function.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Brian" wrote:

I am looking for the formula to enter in Excel to populate a cell with the
text description that corresponds to the selected numeric value selected in a
separate cell.

Thanks.