Depends upon what the data looks like, but you should be able to use LOOKUP
or VLOOKUP where the test values and lookup values are defined in a table.

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"sthompson" wrote in message
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since excel has a limit of 7 nested ifs and someone i know needs to do 12
nested ifs is there a way to do this