Look in HELP for the VLOOKUP() function
Here is a tutorial:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"PAL" wrote in message
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I have two worksheets. The first one is a list of countries (~25
countries;
LOV!A1:A25) down one column.

The second one is a a multi-column, multi-row list, with one of the
columns
being country. I have inserted a another column in order to create
regions
for each row.

Example:
If B5=USA, I want it to return, "North America"...
If B5=Canada, I want it to return, "North America"
If B5=Spain, I want it to return, "Europe"
IF B6=Japa, I want it to return, "Asia"

Seems like this is a complex if, but not able figure it out.