Hi,

I am trying to use LOOKUP, but I have 2 things to lookup within 1 cell and want to concatenate them:

Example:

A
1 U(9)


2 M(8)
3 C(7)

My lookup table:

A B C
1 U All users
2 M Management
3 C Consultants
4 7 Read Only
5 8 Full Access
6 9 Read & Write

I would like to be able to extract the "U(9)" in cell A1 as "All Users - Read & Write"

I would like to know if there is a way to do this without having my U(9) in 2 separate cells.

Thanks,
Stephanie

Hi , supposing sheet2!$a$1:$b$6 is your lookup table and there is only one digit between parenthesis,

perhaps

=vlookup(left(a1,1),sheet2!$a$1:$b$6,2,0)&" -"&vlookup(mid(a1,3,1),sheet2!$a$1:$b$6,2,0)

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I couldn't get that to work. The first part works, but if I do the second VLOOKUP on its own, I get #N/A for some reason.

If the contents inside the parentheses U(9) always is a digit then put a double minus in front of the MID function.

ok... now to throw a wrench into it...
I just looked at all the cells I need to do this for and they aren't all the same...
I added a few more examples. The numbers in brackets are consistent, (0-9) but the values before the first parenthesis is different and varying length.

Example:

A
1 U(9)
2 M(8)
3 C(7)
4 D3.6.0(7)
5 W++(8)
6 W++(7)
7 D0.1+++(9)

My lookup table:

A B C
1 U All users
2 M Management
3 C Consultants
4 D3.6.0
5 D0.1+++
6 W++
7 7 Read Only
8 8 Full Access
9 9 Read & Write

Is this still doable??? I'm guessing to use an expression search, "look at all characters before the first open parenthesis"?

Thanks,
Stephanie

something like =--RIGHT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),1)

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Figured it out!!!

=VLOOKUP(LEFT(TRIM(A1),LEN(TRIM(A1))-3),Sheet2!$A$1:$B$9,2,0)&" - "&VLOOKUP(--RIGHT(LEFT(TRIM(A1),LEN(TRIM(A1))-1),1),Sheet2!$A$1:$B$9,2,0)

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!