Actually, my above statement is not entirely true. I like a clean
worksheet and so try to avoid looking at errors returned by formulas.
My first offering accomplishes this if the lookup value is outside the
criteria range[s]. The way I'd use LOOKUP normally would to wrap it in
an IF function so it returns an empty string on error...


=IF(ISERROR(LOOKUP($A1,{1,20,50,75},{"low","med"," high","heavy"})),"",LOOKUP($A1,{1,20,50,75},{"low" ,"med","high","heavy"}))

...and so we lose formula brevity. I this OP's scenario, outside the
range is any value <1. IMO, it's better to *not* have errors propagate
to other cells containing formulas that ref cells with formulas that
return errors!

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Garry

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