Excel formula question - HELP!!!

[thekiddy]

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I work in the NHS and currently analysing some of the school data.<o></o>
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Anyway the data has a list of pupil and what the BMI is. Eg 12.52493624<o></o>
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There are over 3000 pupil that I need to categorise based or there BMI with the following catagories:-<o></o>
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Data set<o></o>
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Row A B C D

Row Pupil No School BMI BMI
1 10 ******* 12.894669 Answer<o></o>
2 11 ******* 13.758999 Answer<o></o>
3 12 ******* 22.987784 Answer<o></o>
4 13 ******* 20.599978 Answer<o></o>
5 14 ******* 7.899998 Answer<o></o>


Categories<o></o>
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Row U V<o></o>
1 MaxOFBMI BMI Desc<o></o>
2 0 Year 6: Underweight<o></o>
3 13.99196 Year 6: Healthy Weight<o></o>
4 20.59475 Year 6: Overweight<o></o>
5 22.81574 Year 6: Obese<o></o>
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.<o></o>
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Many Thanks<o></o>

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hi

You can use a Vlookup with optional 4th argument set to TRUE:
<b>Excel 2002</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th><th>D</th><th>E</th><th>F</th><th>G</th><th>H</th><th>I</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Pupil_No</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">School</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">BMI</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">BMI</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Table</td><td style="font-weight: bold;text-align: right;;"></td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style="text-align: right;;">10</td><td style=";">*******</td><td style="text-align: right;;">12.89467</td><td style=";">Year 6: Underweight</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Lower Limit</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Description</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style="text-align: right;;">11</td><td style=";">*******</td><td style="text-align: right;;">13.759</td><td style=";">Year 6: Underweight</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">0</td><td style=";">Year 6: Underweight</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style="text-align: right;;">12</td><td style=";">*******</td><td style="text-align: right;;">22.98778</td><td style=";">Year 6: Obese</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">13.99196</td><td style=";">Year 6: Healthy Weight</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style="text-align: right;;">13</td><td style=";">*******</td><td style="text-align: right;;">20.59998</td><td style=";">Year 6: Overweight</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">20.59475</td><td style=";">Year 6: Overweight</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">6</td><td style="text-align: right;;">14</td><td style=";">*******</td><td style="text-align: right;;">7.899998</td><td style=";">Year 6: Underweight</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;">22.81574</td><td style=";">Year 6: Obese</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">D2</th><td style="text-align:left">=VLOOKUP(<font color="Blue">C2,$H$3:$I$6,2,TRUE</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

Formula in D2 is copied down.