Allocation of Expenses

[Yonge234]

Hello, i was looking for help on an excel doc, its basically allocating the expenses into different categories but the names for the expenses differ, is there any way i can make the names fit into these specific categories or change each name to fit the category?


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EDIT:
to be more specific is there any formula i can use to make it easier or do i change each name one by one to fit into their respective category

 

[alansidman]

1. You would be better served uploading an actual file and not a picture of a file. We cannot manipulate data in a picture and no one really wants to spend their time re-creating your file.
2. You did not offer any type of information on how this should look as solved. Creating a manually prepared sample helps us to understand what you want. Afterall, we are not mind readers

 

[pedro-egoli]

1. You would be better served uploading an actual file and not a picture of a file. We cannot manipulate data in a picture and no one really wants to spend their time re-creating your file.
2. You did not offer any type of information on how this should look as solved. Creating a manually prepared sample helps us to understand what you want. Afterall, we are not mind readers

I was trying to construct a mini spreadsheet along lines of what I thought might be a type of solution but have run into a problem using Index and Match.
My attempt below

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
3						P	I
4	DATE	SYMBOL	Descripton	total	HST%	PHONE	INSURANCE
5	1/07/2019	P	#N/A
Sheet1

If i can get C5 to equal F4 then i would place a fomula in F5 to pick up value in D5.
Any assistance welcome

 

[pedro-egoli]

Bump .
anyone give me some reason my formula did not work thanks.

 

[Yonge234]

Hello, thank you for the replies. I am sorry that i did not upload the file and just a picture, it was my first time doing it and i also should have been more clear about how i wanted it to look. I will make another thread with the uploaded file.

 

[pedro-egoli]

Bump .
anyone give me some reason my formula did not work thanks.

Found that leading/trailing spaces caused my error and the formula worked as shown below

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
3						P	I
4	DATE	SYMBOL	Descripton	total	HST%	PHONE	INSURANCE
5	1/07/2019	I	INSURANCE
6	7/07/2019	P	PHONE
Sheet1

That may assist others