That worked perfectly. But one other thing. If field 'Week 2'!E20 is blank,
can I get it to produce a blank. I tried your example and used X1 and Y1 as
blanks, but it did not work. I guess I could type something there and change
the font color, but that is a cheap work around. Trying to get this right.


"Pete_UK" wrote:

Basically, you build up a table somewhere on your worksheet, e.g. in X1:Y10
and you just list the choices like this:

Annual A
Sick S
Personal PL
FLSA Comp F
GA Comp G
Holiday H
Pass P
Leave W/O Pay AD

Then you would have one formula along the lines of:

=VLOOKUP('Week 2'!E20,X$1:Y$10,2,0)

and that will return the appropriate letter code.

Hope this helps.

Pete


"ppidgursky" wrote in message
...
I have looked at it but that is new territory for me. Any suggestions?

"Don Guillett" wrote:

Have a look in the help index for VLOOKUP

--
Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"ppidgursky" wrote in message
...
I am looking to add more items to a IF statement. The current
is:=IF('Week
2'!$E$20="Annual","A",IF('Week 2'!$E$20="Sick","S",IF('Week
2'!$E$20="Personal","PL",IF('Week 2'!$E$20="FLSA Comp","F",IF('Week
2'!$E$20="GA Comp","G",IF('Week 2'!$E$20="Holiday","H",IF('Week
2'!$E$20="Pass","P",IF('Week 2'!$E$20="Leave W/O Pay","AD",""))))))))

I know excel says you can not use more than 7 functions in function.
The
above function has 8 levels, and I need to add two more.
The current looks at a cell on 'Week2' and if the field displays
"Annual"
for example, on the 2nd sheet it shows an "A". Using the same fields I
want
to add 2 more; "Military Leave" to display as "M", and "Jury Duty" as
"D".
I am loosing my patience on this one. Please Help.