hello, i would like to set up something like this: if name = a then address =
x, if name = b then address = y,....
i work with 2 sheets, 1 for invoices 1 for contents or datas

Hi Frederick ...

What are you trying to do here? Are you trying to give an individual
cell an instruction to do something according to what the value of
another cell is? For example, are you trying to automatically fill
cell A2 with the address of the person who's name appears in A1?

G'fer


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If you have lots of names, it may be better to create a 2 column table on
another sheet (and hide that sheet???).

Then you could use this kind of formula:

=if(a1="","",vlookup(a1,sheet2!a:b,2,false))

And to avoid looking at errors when there isn't a match:

=if(a1="","",if(iserror(vlookup(a1,sheet2!a:b,2,fa lse)),"Missing Name",
vlookup(a1,sheet2!a:b,2,false)))

Debra Dalgleish has lots of notes on =vlookup():
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

frederick wrote:

hello, i would like to set up something like this: if name = a then address =
x, if name = b then address = y,....
i work with 2 sheets, 1 for invoices 1 for contents or datas

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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:58:01 -0700, frederick
wrote:

hello, i would like to set up something like this: if name = a then address =
x, if name = b then address = y,....
i work with 2 sheets, 1 for invoices 1 for contents or datas

Set up a table and use VLOOKUP
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exactly, pb i am real novice in excel, so f.e when i try with 1value it works
well but as long as i try to put more values it just wont work
=IF(I5="Frederick";Products!I3;Products!I6) works
=IF(I5="Frederick","Karim";Products!I3;Products!I6 )

If you only have a few exampls where you want to look this up you could
use the OR command. In your example here it would be

=IF(or(I5="Frederick",I5="Karim"),Products!I3,Prod ucts!I6)

With this is I5 = Frederick or I5 = Karim then it will show the value
for Products!I3, if it does not equal either if these values then it
will display the value in Products!I6

You can also nest many OR commands within these brackets.

If what you are looking for is to be able to display different results
depending on the input in I5 then you would probably need to se a
VLOOKUP command which woul be along the lines of

=vlookup(I5,"Range","Column",FALSE)

If this is what you need then post again with a little bit more info
about the data you have and what you are trying to find.

Hope this helps

Regards

Carl
frederick Wrote:
exactly, pb i am real novice in excel, so f.e when i try with 1value it
works
well but as long as i try to put more values it just wont work
=IF(I5="Frederick";Products!I3;Products!I6) works
=IF(I5="Frederick","Karim";Products!I3;Products!I6 )


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