Hell all,

I have a workbook which contains several worksheets. Each worksheet
contains specific data as text with an ID number. i.e. Hip ID number
for this wrod is 2. The word Hip and its ID number are located in the
Body Part worksheet. There's a main worksheet named Map, which is
where I would like to be able to tyoe the word Hip and have the ID
number automatically appear in a specific cell in the Map worksheet.

This is the Body Part worksheet

Body Part ID Body Part
1 Shoulder
2 Hip
3 Knee

This is the map:

Category ID Body Part Complaint Element Group Question
2 (cell b6) Hip (cell I6)

I would like to type the word Hip under body part on cell I6 and have
the number 2 appear automatically in the Category ID cell b6.

Thanks in advance

I'm going to assume that on your body part worksheet that the Body Part ID is
in column A, and the Body Part (name) is in column B. I am also going to
assume that the sheet's name is Parts List
in B6 type this formula:
=OFFSET('Parts List'!$A$1,MATCH(I6,'Parts List'!$B$1:$B$3,0)-1,0)

The use of the $ signs is important - it keeps the references to the column
ranges on the Parts List sheet from changing as you copy the formula to more
cells on the other sheet. But you don't want $ signs in the "I6" reference
so that it will automatically adjust itself as you extend the formula up/down
the sheet there.

Change Parts List to be the real sheet's name, and change $B$3 to be the
last cell with a body part name in it on that sheet.

To keep #NA from popping up in cells before you've entered a body part name,
alter that formula to look like this:
=IF(ISNA(OFFSET('Parts List'!$A$1,MATCH(I6,'Parts
List'!$B$1:$B$3,0)-1,0)),"",OFFSET('Parts List'!$A$1,MATCH(I6,'Parts
List'!$B$1:$B$3,0)-1,0))

I recommend that you use a list with data validation in the 'I' column to
select the body part from to prevent misspellings from returning erroneous
results.

" wrote:

Hell all,

I have a workbook which contains several worksheets. Each worksheet
contains specific data as text with an ID number. i.e. Hip ID number
for this wrod is 2. The word Hip and its ID number are located in the
Body Part worksheet. There's a main worksheet named Map, which is
where I would like to be able to tyoe the word Hip and have the ID
number automatically appear in a specific cell in the Map worksheet.

This is the Body Part worksheet

Body Part ID Body Part
1 Shoulder
2 Hip
3 Knee

This is the map:

Category ID Body Part Complaint Element Group Question
2 (cell b6) Hip (cell I6)

I would like to type the word Hip under body part on cell I6 and have
the number 2 appear automatically in the Category ID cell b6.

Thanks in advance