Help in formating cells

[ExcelNubee]

I'm running into a brain buster for my simple mind.
I want to be able to put an number into a cell, but have a word show instead. Is this possible? For example: in Cell A1, I will type "000053", but would like "Frontier" to show. Any help will be greatly appreciated, for this might show my CEO that I might know something they don't!

[Peo Sjoblom]

Make a table with the numbers in one column then another column with what
the numbers represent
put them somewhere of the visible area, in for instance numbers in Y1:Y50
and text in Z1:Z50

then use


=IF(A1="","",VLOOKUP(A1,Y1:Z50,2,0))

if you put that formula in C2 then type the number in A1

note that leading zeros does not matter if the numbers are really numbers,
however if you format Y1:Y50 and A1 as text you can use leading zeros and
they will have an impact
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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Northwest Excel Solutions

www.nwexcelsolutions.com

(remove ^^ from email address)

Portland, Oregon




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> I'm running into a brain buster for my simple mind.
> I want to be able to put an number into a cell, but have a word show
> instead. Is this possible? For example: in Cell A1, I will type
> "000053", but would like "Frontier" to show. Any help will be greatly
> appreciated, for this might show my CEO that I might know something
> they don't!
>
>
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