You need to create a VLOOKUP table or use VBA
Look up VLOOKUP in help

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"shryockp" wrote in message
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This might be confusing, but any help would be great. I would like to
paste a
series of values into a cell and have a coresponding name appear next to
it.
For example, if I paste "00-0000-00" into A1 I want excel to assiociate
"00-0000-00" as a "belt" in B1. If I enter "00-0000-01", I would want it
to
assiciate it with "knife" and so on. I think using acess would be better
for
this application, but I am clueless as to how to use acess. Thanks for
your
help.