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Formulas
Simple answer: Yes!
There are in fact several functions that can achieve this. VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX / MATCH and depending on your Excel version XLOOKUP. You can build formulae with these to find the jobs done by each student. It all depends on how your data actually looks like. So, if you could upload a sample of your sheets (without any private or confidential information) that would be helpful.
Thank you I uploaded my sheet for you. Riny_van_Eekelen
One more question I have... is there a way to get excel to take the names and randomly fill them into the jobs?
You have 11 jobs, 41 weeks to be performed by 22 students. Hence, every student has to perform each job about twice.
Have a look at the sheet StudentNames. If you start top-left in the first week. Hannah to Reagan will each take one of the 11 jobs. The next week it will be Jillian to Emma. Of course, that will not help you for the going year. But perhaps for the future.
Its perfect thank you so much. I used to make spreadsheets all the time and have taken a few classes but haven't done many in the last couple years, I need to get refreshed on the formulas! Riny_van_Eekelen