Set up a simple table showing the start of the range and the group
name:

1 1 - 5 yrs
6 6 - 10 yrs
11 11 - 15 yrs
etc.

Suppose you put this in X1:Y10.

Then with your Years of Service in column B, put this in C2:

=VLOOKUP(B2,$X$1:$Y$10,2)

and copy it down as required.

If you always have 5 year ranges in the group then an alternative
would be to calculate the group name from the years of service, so
that you wouldn't need a table, but the table approach is more
flexible.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Aug 21, 6:12*am, GuinnessT
wrote:
Hi,

I want to assign a group to each of my data columns

eg I have employees years of service and I want to add a group such as 1-5
years 6-10 years etc

Name * * * * * * Years of Service * * * * *Group
J Blogs * * * * * * * * * 2.5 * * * * * * * * * * *1 - 5 years
S Smith * * * * * * * * 11 * * * * * * * * * * * 11-15 years

The only way I can think of doing it is by using IF statments to say if the
value is between 1 and 5 put '1-5 years' etc but this would need more than 7
nested IF's and I have been told that if you need more than 7 there is a
better way of doing it!

Could a vlookup work and if so, how do you get it to look at values within a
range?

Thanks