Multiple IF's the way to go ??

Dan Crimmins

Hi all,

I have a column named "Site Name" this column is a drop-down single select with all our site names (approx 20 different options) for the sake of this post I will call them

Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Milan

The user selects the site name via a form and this is reflected in the cell in the appropriate row.

I would like to add a column named "Region" and in this column have a formula that looks to the "Site Name" and returns a value.

So for example, if the user selected "Rome" then the formula would return "Europe" in the region column if however the user selected "New York" the region would change to US and so on and so forth.

What would be the most elegant and economic way to achieve this?

Thanks

Dan

Andrée Starå

Hi @Dan Crimmins

I hope you're well and safe!

You can either use a multi IF formula or an INDEX/MATCH structure.

Make sense?

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Dan Crimmins

Can you show me a short working example of how I would use that in the example in my question ?

Thanks

Dan

Paul Newcome

I would suggest going the INDEX/MATCH route if you have a lot of different options.

First you would need to build a table in another sheet that has each option and the corresponding value listed out.

Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Milan

"Rome" then the formula would return "Europe" in the region column if however the user selected "New York" the region would change to US

Rome..........Europe

London.......UK

Paris...........Europe

New York...US

Then in your working sheet where you pull the data to, you would (using the appropriate steps for creating cross sheet references) use a formula such as this:

=INDEX({Table Sheet Region Column}, MATCH([Dropdown Column]@row, {Table Sheet City Column}, 0))

Dan Crimmins

Great thanks for your replies both.

Paul, I used your suggestion of another sheet and it worked like a charm.

Thanks again for your help and all the best

Dan

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️