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Default Enter value in compute cell location?

Is it possible to have the result of an expression generate the address
into which to enter a value? Example would be given a State variable of
one of (say) three values, place another cell value in one of three
columns dependent upon the state. It's simple enough to duplicate a
lookup function in every cell of all three columns, but that seems
excessive.

GIVEN

A B C D E F
1 10 'A
2 5 'C
3 20 'A
4 2 'B
..
..
..


WANTED

A B C D E F
1 10 'A ? 10
2 5 'C ? 5
3 20 'A ? 20
4 2 'B ? 2
..
..
..

A formula in column C using B and a lookup can create D thru F (the "?")
would be...

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