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[philmophlegm]

How do I do this in Excel?

I want to enter a value in the range 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F (or similar) in one cell, and then in another cell show the entry from a table that corresponds to this value.

For example, I want to enter the value 'B' in the 'Atmosphere' column and then have my spreadsheet show in the next cell that Atmosphere B is 'Corrosive'. If I had put in '5', it would show 'Thin'.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A vlookup table?

[andrewducker]

Yeah, a VLookup. If you have your values from A1->A10 and the things you want to lookup in B1->B10 and the location of the value to lookup is in D1 then you want:
=VLOOKUP(D1,A1:B10,2,FALSE)

The "2" is the column of the answer, and the "FALSE" says "Don't look for an approximate match, give me an exact one".

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Excellent - thanks all.

[foradan.livejournal.com]

Is that a Traveller world generator in a spreadsheet?