Please ignore my second post...

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

In sheet2 Cell B1
=INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,ROW())

'to handle blank entries
=IF(INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,ROW())="","",INDEX(Sheet1!A:A ,ROW()))

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Jacob Skaria


"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Try
=INDEX(Sheet1!A:A,A1,1)

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"ppp" wrote:

i need a formula in Sheet 2 of Column B to return the appropriate match
category based on value in sheet 2 column A


Sheet 1
Column A
a
b
c
d
e
etc

Sheet 2
Column A
1
1
1
2
3
4
5

i need to create column B in sheet 2 which look like the example below

column A Column B
1 a
1 a
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 e
5
6 d

Thanks very much for taking a look and help.

ppp