First I am not use to doing this kind of stuff in excel so I apologize if
this seems like a sillly question.

So let's say in cells A200 - A226 I have the Alphabet, and in cells B200 -
B226 I have the numbers 1 -26.
In cell C1 I want one of numeric values from the cells B200 - B226 based on
a value in cells A200 - A226. This is I want to look at the entire list of
values in cells A200 -A226 for the value "D" (which I would find in Cell
A203) based on that result I would like the value of B203 (which would be a
4) placed into cell C1.

I hope all that made sense. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan