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I'm trying to write a formula in column B to return the value of "NA" if column A say "North America", "EU" if column A says "Europe" and "APAC" if column A says "Asia Pacific".

I'm sure there's something online but I'm not sure how to look for the answer.

Any takers? Thanks in advance!
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Default Formula to return a value in column B conditional upon the value in Column A

There are other methods but here is one.

=IF(A1="","",LOOKUP(A1,{"Asia Pacific","Europe","North
America"},{"APAC","EU","NA"}))


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Hi!

I'm trying to write a formula in column B to return the value of "NA" if
column A say "North America", "EU" if column A says "Europe" and "APAC"
if column A says "Asia Pacific".

I'm sure there's something online but I'm not sure how to look for the
answer.

Any takers? Thanks in advance!

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Hi!

I'm trying to write a formula in column B to return the value of "NA" if column A say "North America", "EU" if column A says "Europe" and "APAC" if column A says "Asia Pacific".

I'm sure there's something online but I'm not sure how to look for the answer.

Any takers? Thanks in advance!
Two ways of doing this...

1) Nested IF statements

=IF(A1="North America","NA",IF(A1="Europe","EU",IF(A1="Asia Pacific","APAC","")))


2) Lookup table

Put a table somewhere in the workbook that has North America, Europe, South Pacific in one column and NA, EU, APAC in the corresponding cells of the next column. Then use VLOOKUP to return the relevant value.

Hope that helps.

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Thank you! I'm going to try the nested if statements!

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Two ways of doing this...

1) Nested IF statements

=IF(A1="North America","NA",IF(A1="Europe","EU",IF(A1="Asia Pacific","APAC","")))


2) Lookup table

Put a table somewhere in the workbook that has North America, Europe, South Pacific in one column and NA, EU, APAC in the corresponding cells of the next column. Then use VLOOKUP to return the relevant value.

Hope that helps.
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