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I need help. I want to be able to type in a numberin cell A1 and the
description to appear on cell B1. Just by typing the number.
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Look in the Excel help for the Vlookup command. You will need to have a
table of the numbers with their descriptions saved somewhere.

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I need help. I want to be able to type in a numberin cell A1 and the
description to appear on cell B1. Just by typing the number.
thank you



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I can't seem to get it can you help.

"Lewis Clark" wrote:

Look in the Excel help for the Vlookup command. You will need to have a
table of the numbers with their descriptions saved somewhere.

"mariflor" wrote in message
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I need help. I want to be able to type in a numberin cell A1 and the
description to appear on cell B1. Just by typing the number.
thank you




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If you create a list somewhere like this:

Assume this starts in row 10

Col A Col B
1 Blue
2 Green
3 Red

Then where you want to look it up, but in Cell B1 =vlookup(a1,a10:b12,2)

"mariflor" wrote:

I can't seem to get it can you help.

"Lewis Clark" wrote:

Look in the Excel help for the Vlookup command. You will need to have a
table of the numbers with their descriptions saved somewhere.

"mariflor" wrote in message
...
I need help. I want to be able to type in a numberin cell A1 and the
description to appear on cell B1. Just by typing the number.
thank you




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