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Using cell data to referece another cell
Hi, I hope someone can help me. I don't really know what to call what I want to do, so the built-in Help function isn't really ... well, helpful. Okay. I have a list in column G (text). In column A I have a series of numbers. For the sake of argument, let's say A1 has "3", and G1 has "Red", G2 has "Orange", and G3 has "Yellow". I would like for *B1* to be able to read the value in A1, then copy the value from [Column G, Row (value of A1)]; so in this case B1 would read "Yellow". This would be even better if I can import the column of numbers from a text file, then have the formula go to work automatically. Can anyone help with this? Thanks! - Emery -- odinspearx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ odinspearx's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26327 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=395977 |
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You want to use Column A values as an index into COlumn G Try:
=indirect("G"&A1) as the formula in cell B1 -- Gary's Student "odinspearx" wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help me. I don't really know what to call what I want to do, so the built-in Help function isn't really ... well, helpful. Okay. I have a list in column G (text). In column A I have a series of numbers. For the sake of argument, let's say A1 has "3", and G1 has "Red", G2 has "Orange", and G3 has "Yellow". I would like for *B1* to be able to read the value in A1, then copy the value from [Column G, Row (value of A1)]; so in this case B1 would read "Yellow". This would be even better if I can import the column of numbers from a text file, then have the formula go to work automatically. Can anyone help with this? Thanks! - Emery -- odinspearx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ odinspearx's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26327 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=395977 |
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Awesome! Thanks, that works perfectly!! But what is it "called" ? Reference? Indirect Reference? Something like that? -- odinspearx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ odinspearx's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26327 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=395977 |
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