Making a set value appear in a cell

Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.

You can do this using a VLOOKUP formula. First you would need to set up
a list of all the account purpose's and their respective account numbers
- the lookup table, in this example on sheet1 range A1:B10.
Then if you enter a purpose in A2 (on another sheet) in B2 you could
have the formula:
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$1:$B$10,2,0)

For more on vlookups see excel help and also
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

Hope this helps
Rowan

Aleksey Solovyov wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
> an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
> for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
> purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
> automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
> account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
> goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.

Hi Aleksey,

Lookup formulas (lookup, vlookup, hlookup) would greatly help with this
task. Use Excel's help ('F1') or do a google search for some examples.
You will love working with excel !!!

"Aleksey Solovyov" wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to excel, I apologize if this question is too basic. I work for
> an accountant, and I have to enter an account purpose and the account number
> for that purpose in a cell right next to it. Is there any way to enter the
> purpose and make the set value of the account number appear next to it
> automatically? For example if I enter ABC for purpose, can I make a (fake)
> account number of 50-5025-02 appear next to it automatically? And the same
> goes for other purposes and their respective account numbers.