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Christina Kang
Jul 10, 2017Copper Contributor
Returning value based on a text list
Hi everyone,
I have a list of 50 distinct accounts. There are three account managers (i.e., Team 1, Team 2, Team 3) in my organization each of whom is assigned to a book of distinct accounts (i.e., portion of the 50 distinct accounts).
I've created an excel sheet with one column housing a dropdown to select from the 50 accounts. Let's say one of the 50 accounts is named "AccountOne" and is assigned to Team 1. If I choose AccountOne from the dropdown, how do I get a return value of "Team 1" in the next column? In summary, I would like excel to return Team 1, Team 2, etc based on the account chosen from a dropdown list.
I've found information on IF functions, but can't seem to find a function that allows for searching through a range of text options to return a value. Thank you!
Hello,
You can use the Vlookup function for this. Consider the following screenshot:
The account list in columns E and F shows which team an account belongs to.
When an account is entered into cell A2, the formula in B2 looks up that account in column E and returns the team name from column F
The formula, as seen in the formula bar is
=VLOOKUP(A2,$E$2:$F$14,2,FALSE)
The formula can then be copied down.
Hello,
You can use the Vlookup function for this. Consider the following screenshot:
The account list in columns E and F shows which team an account belongs to.
When an account is entered into cell A2, the formula in B2 looks up that account in column E and returns the team name from column F
The formula, as seen in the formula bar is
=VLOOKUP(A2,$E$2:$F$14,2,FALSE)
The formula can then be copied down.