Categorizing Data Question

[Demosthenes]

Hello,

I have a list of data in C, and would like to create a column in D that
organizes that data into a specific category. For example, given:

Fruit apple apple
orange orange
banana lettuce
kiwi banana
tomato kiwi
Veg lettuce potato
potato orange
banana
kiwi
tomato
apple
orange

I want to create a new column in D that returns "fruit" or "veg" -
whichever's appropriate for that row. The problem is that I have a lot of
items and a lot of categories. I can't get an IF or LOOKUP function to work.
I can do VLOOKUP, but would rather not reformat my data.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Pete_UK]

Put this in D1:

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(C1,B:B,0)),"",IF(INDEX(A:A,MATCH(C1,B:B,
0))="",LOOKUP("zzz",INDIRECT("A1:A"&MATCH(C1,B:B,
0))),INDEX(A:A,MATCH(C1,B:B,0))))

and copy down as far as you need. It will cope with column C cells
being empty and with cells in C containing fruit or vegetables which
are not in column B (eg Plum) - both return blanks.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Max]

Think you could simplify the categorization task dramatically via
pre-populating fully cols A and B (fill-it down), viz make it:

Fruit apple
Fruit orange
Fruit banana
Fruit kiwi
Fruit tomato
Veg lettuce
Veg potato

Then simply place in D2, copied down: =INDEX(A:A,MATCH(C2,B:B,0))
should accomplish the task of categorizing all the data in col C in seconds
Above of any worth? hit YES below

 

[Demosthenes]

Pete,

Thanks! That does what I wanted.

Max,

Thanks! That works, but I was hoping to not reformat it like that.

 

[Pete_UK]

You're welcome - thanks for feeding back.

Pete

Pete,

Thanks! That does what I wanted.

Max,

Thanks! That works, but I was hoping to not reformat it like that.







- Show quoted text -