Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.

You can do this using a VLOOKUP formula. First you would need to set up
a list of all the account purpose's and their respective account numbers
- the lookup table, in this example on sheet1 range A1:B10.
Then if you enter a purpose in A2 (on another sheet) in B2 you could
have the formula:
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$1:$B$10,2,0)

For more on vlookups see excel help and also
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

Hope this helps
Rowan

Aleksey Solovyov wrote:
Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.

Hi Aleksey,

Lookup formulas (lookup, vlookup, hlookup) would greatly help with this
task. Use Excel's help ('F1') or do a google search for some examples.
You will love working with excel !!!

"Aleksey Solovyov" wrote:

Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.