Thanks Akphidelt, great solution works great

Jenny

"akphidelt" wrote:

Alright, sorry about this, but I felt a little bad about the code and
actually tried it out. It does work except if a value is 15, it will select
16-20 years. So to correct that, use this equation instead and you should be
good

=IF((A1/5)<1,"1 - 5 years",IF(MOD(A1/5,1)=0,A1/5*5-4&" - "&INT(A1/5)*5&"
years",INT(A1/5)*5+1&" - "&INT(A1/5)*5+5&" years"))

"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