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Old April 21st, 2010, 10:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Demosthenes
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Default Categorizing Data Question

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!