Help with writing an "IF" Statement

AChampagne

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Hello, I need help writing an "IF" statement.

Cell C2 contains one of five possible responses: Exceptional, Highly Effective, Solid Performance, Needs Improvement, Not Effective

In cell C3, I would like to assign a numerical answer based on C2. For example: If C2 equals Exceptional I would like the number 5 to appear in cell C3. If C2 equals Highly Effective I would like the number 4 to appear in cell C3 and so on.

Help??
 

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Hi,

You can have the possible responses hard coded in the formula like in C3, or you can enter the possible responses in a column or row of cells (i.e. E1:E5) and reference it in the formula like in C6:


Excel 2010
CDE
1Exceptional
2Highly EffectiveHighly Effective
34Solid Performance
4Needs Improvement
5Solid PerformanceNot Effective
63
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C3=LOOKUP(C2,{"Exceptional","Highly Effective","Solid Performance","Needs Improvement","Not Effective"},{5,4,3,2,1})
C6=LOOKUP(C5,E1:E5,{5,4,3,2,1})
 
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You have the right idea with lookup, but the text array needs to be sorted in ascending order.

I might have chosen match instead..

=MATCH(C2,{"Not Effective","Needs Improvement","Solid Performance","Highly Effective","Exceptional"},0)
 
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