Excel is hard... I tell you hwhat!

RoyalRife

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Hello all,

I have a condition in an Excel table I cannot solve, and I need some help. I'm an Excel newb, so my first reaction was to go down the YouTube rabbit hole. Obviously, that was not fruitful and left me more confused. My issue is as follows:

While at work, every morning, I have to copy and paste a table of data into a blank Excel sheet from a program my employer uses. It must be done every day because the data values in the table update and change, from the previous day. Then I format the table with a few macros to make the table look a certain way. No issue so far. The last task I need to perform has stumped me. There is a column in the table that display employee numbers in every cell. Each employee number corresponds to a specific employee's name in our company. I need the employees name displayed in the cell, not the number. After I copy and paste the table in Excel, is there a format to accomplish this change? In total, there are ten numbers that correspond to ten employee names.

Question: How do I make the cells in column B display the employee's name, in place of the employee's number, in that cell every time that number occurs in the B column?

Example: If the number 47 occurs in any cell in column B, then the name that corresponds to number 47 should replace 47 and display that name in the same cell. This should happen in any cell in column B that contains the number 47. Which is the name Eddie, in this case. The same applies to employee numbers 15, 23, and 31 in column B, with their corresponding employee names.

Example list:
15=Bob
23=Jim
31=Dan
47=Eddie
Etc...

I hope that explanation is logical. Thank you in advance for any help.
 

Excel Facts

Copy formula down without changing references
If you have =SUM(F2:F49) in F50; type Alt+' in F51 to copy =SUM(F2:F49) to F51, leaving the formula in edit mode. Change SUM to COUNT.
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VBA Code:
Sub replaceit()
    With Range("B2:B" & Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)
        .Replace "15", "Bob", xlWhole
        .Replace "23", "Jim", xlWhole
        .Replace "31", "Dan", xlWhole
        .Replace "47", "Eddie", xlWhole
    End With
End Sub
 
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