Take 1st letter in one cell and auto-insert the word in a new cell.

[craigwojo]

Hi everyone,
Something simple, just cant remember how I did this a while ago.
In Sheet "VINYL" cells A10:A10000 will be a number starting with a letter. Example A21
In the next column, B10:B10000 will be a designated word from the first letter of cells A10:A10000
If the first letter is "A", then the name from that letter will go into the next cell 'AIR".
A=AIR
P=PRODUCT
E=ELECTRICAL
C=CHEMICAL
S=STEAM
I will add more when I see how the condition is formulated.

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you and God bless,
Craig

 

[etaf]

index with a left maybe

=Left(Cell with letter and number, 1)

index( the lookup range form table, match(Left(Cell with letter and number, 1) , Range with the letter and lookup in , 0))

In Sheet "VINYL" cells A10:A10000 will be a number starting with a letter. Example A21
In the next column, B10:B10000 will be a designated word from the first letter of cells A10:A10000

Assuming table of lookup is in C and D 1 to 26
in B10
index( $D$1:$D$26, match(Left(A10,1) , $C$1:$C$26 , 0))

Book1
	A	B	C	D
1			A	AIR
2			P	PRODUCT
3			E	ELECTRICAL
4			C	CHEMICAL
5			S	STEAM
6
7
8
9
10	A12	AIR
11	P34	PRODUCT
12	c23	CHEMICAL
13	A13	AIR
14	P35	PRODUCT
15	c24	CHEMICAL
Sheet1

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B10:B15	B10	=INDEX($D$1:$D$5,MATCH(LEFT(A10,1),$C$1:$C$5,0))

A SMALL sample spreadsheet, around 10-20 rows, would help a lot here, with all sensitive data removed, and expected results mocked up and manually entered, with a few notes of explanation.

This will possibly enable a quicker and more accurate solution for you.

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You can also test to see if it works ok, in the "Test Here" forum.

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OR if you cannot get XL2BB to work, or have restrictions on your PC

then put the sample spreadsheet onto a share

I only tend to goto OneDrive, Dropbox or google docs , as I'm never certain of other random share sites and possible virus.
Please make sure you have a representative data sample and also that the data has been desensitised, remember this site is open to anyone with internet access to see - so any sensitive / personal data should be removed

Make sure you set any share or google to share to everyone

 

[Scott Huish]

You could just use XLOOKUP:

Book1
	A	B	C	D
1			A	AIR
2			P	PRODUCT
3			E	ELECTRICAL
4			C	CHEMICAL
5			S	STEAM
6
7
8
9
10	A12	AIR
11	P34	PRODUCT
12	c23	CHEMICAL
13	A13	AIR
14	P35	PRODUCT
15	c24	CHEMICAL
Sheet1

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B10:B15	B10	=XLOOKUP(LEFT(A10),$C$1:$C$5,$D$1:$D$5,"",0)