Look in the help index for VLOOKUP or just LOOKUP

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Murph" wrote in message
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Trying to assign values to certain text in a column

K2 =City
I want L2 to show a number reference for that city.

If K2 = Columbus then L2 = 1
If K2 = Denver then L2 = 2

I went to this.. and it failed
=IF(K2="Toledo",1,0):IF(K2="Columbus",2,0): IF(K2="Cleveland",3,0)

Help?