One way, use index/match (you can return it left or right of the match col)
In B7: =IF(A7="","",INDEX(A1:A3,MATCH(A7,B1:B3,0)))
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"Pinnacle Accounting" wrote:
in A1,A2 and A3 i have the salesperson name, in B1,B2 and B3 i have the sales
person employee number.

in A7 i have to input the sales person number and i would like their name to
atuomatically show up on B7, i was thinking that if a used the If function i
could achieve this