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    Question Condicional concatenation using values on separate sheets

    Hi all!
    I have been doing some research but can't figure this one out. I must say I'm an excel average user and know just the basics.

    The scenario is as follows:
    I have two sheets within the same excel file, let's call them A and B.
    In sheet A, I have colums 1, 2 and 3 .
    Column 1 has a fixed text that can be "D", "M" or "N"
    Column 2 has a drop down with options "G" and "B".

    These initials would stand for, day, morning, night, good and bad, and I have assigned this in sheet B.

    Now, is there a way to use the concatenate function (or any other that may be suitable) in order to concatenate words in colum 3 according to the values in 1 and 2?
    i.e.
    D, G --> column 3 should say "DayGood".
    M, B --> column 3 should say "MorningBad"

    I hope it makes sense to someone!
    Thanks in advance!
    Jon.

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    Re: Condicional concatenation using values on separate sheets

    Perhaps...
    =IF(OR(A1="",B1=""),"",CHOOSE(MATCH(A1,{"D","M","N"},0),"Day","Morning","Night")&CHOOSE(MATCH(B1,{"G","B"},0),"Good","Bad"))

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    Re: Condicional concatenation using values on separate sheets

    Hi,

    I'm not sure about the relevance of Sheet 2. Perhaps

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    Re: Condicional concatenation using values on separate sheets

    Hi Guys,

    Thanks a lot, that worked lilke a charm. One additional question now:

    When using this conditional formating, if the condition refers to a string:
    if (cellX="winner",good,bad)

    How can I get the "good" output, for any word in cellX starting with "win" and not only for the word "winner"?

    Thanks a lot again!

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    Re: Condicional concatenation using values on separate sheets

    One way would be to replace cellx="winner" with ISNUMBER(SEARCH("win",cellX))

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