Hi olympiad,

As Niek Otten replied, use vlookup. Lets say you save your list of
codes and their description in a table in range A1:B10. e.g.
Col A | Col B
P-NE | Pre App Not Endorsed
P-PI | Pre App Pending Info
P-WD | Pre App Withdrawn
and so on...

In your formula use:
=VLOOKUP(B%,A1:B10,2)


Mangesh


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