Identify first two letters in a name

Hotelman12

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Hello, I need some help. In column A I have a set of usernames (ex. SLHOTELMAN) I need a macro to look at the first two letters in the username and find what division he belongs to and return that value to column B.

Column A
SLHOTELMAN
BOMOTELMAN

Column B
SL = Salt Lake
BO = Boise

let me know if I make since at all!!! Thanks for your help
 

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Use a VLOOKUP table

Formula in column B would be
=VLOOKUP(A1,YourTable,2, False)

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