Found a link to Debra Dalgleish's site for details on VLookp:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

"JMB" wrote:

If you can re-arrange your schedule so that the information for each employee
is on one line (ie move dept to column F), you could use a Lookup.


Assuming your schedule is on a worksheet called Schedule, cells A1:F200:
=VLookup(A1, Schedule!$A$1:$F$200, 5, 0)
=VLookup(A1, Schedule!$A$1:$F$200, 6, 0)

Change ranges as needed, then copy down. The lookup will return the first
instance of the name you are looking up, so you'll need to make sure the
names are unique, or use something else as a "key", such as an employee
number.




"cj" wrote:

hi,

i am using an excel worksheet for an employee schedule for about 60 people.
i need to make a daily workload for each day of the week and print it. i
inserted 7 worksheets within my sched worksheet. for sunday which will be say
sheet 1, if i enter an employee for that day, i want the worksheet to pickup
the shift and dept for that employee. eg if i enter in a1 in workshhet 1
"bob" whose name is on a29 in the sched worksheet, i need a2 and a3 in sheet
1 to pickup bob's shift and dept which is e29 and e30. and the same for the
names i enter down the list. the names i enter may be in random order. eg bob
(a29), joe (a31), pat (a47), tim (a131), etc
any ideas? thanks in advance