Advice on vlookup across text and numbers?

[sing2trees1983]

Hello everyone. I have a list of "numbers" which consists of three letters followed by six numbers. Batches will belong to different clients. E.g. ABC100000 to ABC110000 belongs to client A, ABC110001 to ABC120000 belongs to client B etc.
I would really like members of staff to enter a number and the vlookup function will show the client. Is it possible to do this without listing all the number range options individually?
Hope that makes sense and a huge thank you for your help in advance!

 

[FDibbins]

Maybe something like this?
[Table="width:, class:grid"][tr][td] [/td][td]

A​

[/td][td]

B​

[/td][td]

C​

[/td][td]

D​

[/td][td]

E​

[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]

2​

[/td][td]ABC100000[/td][td]

10​

[/td][td][/td][td]

100003​

[/td][td]

40​

[/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

3​

[/td][td]ABC100001[/td][td]

20​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

4​

[/td][td]ABC100002[/td][td]

30​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

5​

[/td][td]ABC100003[/td][td]

40​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

6​

[/td][td]ABC100004[/td][td]

50​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

7​

[/td][td]ABC100005[/td][td]

60​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

8​

[/td][td]ABC110001[/td][td]

70​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

9​

[/td][td]ABC110002[/td][td]

80​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

10​

[/td][td]ABC110003[/td][td]

90​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

11​

[/td][td]ABC110004[/td][td]

100​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

12​

[/td][td]ABC110005[/td][td]

110​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]
[/table]
E2=VLOOKUP("ABC"&D2,$A$2:$B$12,2,0)

 

[sing2trees1983]

Thanks so much for that - but is there a way of doing it where I don't need to type out every single possible number combination?
E.g not having to type:
ABC100000
ABC100001
ABC100002
ABC100003
all the way to
ABC110005?

Basically something that says if the text/number is between ABC100000 and ABC110000 then it is client A etc. Plus the letters may change, so another client might be DEF100000

 

[FDibbins]

If they will all always have the same 1st letters, then you can pretty much skip using them for this. I suggest you will make a small table with your ranges, but you only need the upper and lower value of each range...
[Table="width:, class:grid"][tr][td] [/td][td]

F​

[/td][td]

G​

[/td][td]

H​

[/td][td]

I​

[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]

2​

[/td][td]

100000​

[/td][td]

10​

[/td][td]

110011​

[/td][td]

20​

[/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

3​

[/td][td]

100005​

[/td][td]

10​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

4​

[/td][td]

110000​

[/td][td]

20​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

5​

[/td][td]

110005​

[/td][td]

20​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

6​

[/td][td]

120000​

[/td][td]

30​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]

[tr][td]

7​

[/td][td]

120005​

[/td][td]

30​

[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]
[/table]
Then pretty much the same formula...
I2=VLOOKUP(H2,$F$2:$G$7,2,1)
note that I used 1 at the end instead of 0