Thank you for all the help. I am experiencing one little problem. I write
the formula into cell E1 and attempt to copy down to the last cell using the
fill handle. I seems as though every second cell comes up with #N/A. Any
ideas what is causing this.

Again thank you for all the help

"James" wrote:

You will need to use the vlookup formula. Have a look at
this in the help menu. It's quite simple, and compares to
lists to return a value.

=vlookup(a1:a10,B1:c10,2,false)

In this case, it looks up the values in cells a1 to a10
and compares them to the values in cells b1 to b10 and
returns the second value to thr right of these cells;
that is, the values in column c.

Hope that helps.

-----Original Message-----
Trying to create a formula to do the following:
Sheet 1 column A a list of personal names a1-a10

Sheet 2 has list of names a1-a10 and list of dollar
amounts colums d1-d10

want to search sheet one and if any name from sheet 2
found on sheet 1 than
the corresponding dollar amount is entered.

Any help appreciated.
--
George
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