Conversion Table

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Hi. I would apprecaite any help I can get on this. I have an existing
spreadsheet of training courses, taking an old course number and replacing
it with a new format. Additionally, I have four extra cells of info per
course code that needs to be incorporated into a revised spreadsheet. for
example:

Existing Spreadsheet:

Column A - Course Code (old)
Column B - Course Code (new)
Column C - Course Name (remains unchanged)

New Spreadsheet:

Column A - Course Code (new)
Column B - Course Name (remains unchanged)
Column C - New Category Code 1
Column D - New Category Code 2
Column E - New Category Code 3
Column F - New Category Code 4

Where the real problem is is that I have another spreadsheet of history
records of individuals listed in terms of the old structure.

The current history spreadsheet is:

Column A - Person's Name
Column B - Person's ID Number
Column C - Course Code (old)
Column D - Course Name

There are also columns listing dates etc, but these won't change at all..

I need somehow to run a conversion formula that will recognise the contents
of each line of Column C in the current history spreadsheet, and will
populate five columns with the information in Columns A, C, D, E & F in the
'New' spreadsheet.

Any advice on how to write the conversion formula will be gratefully
accepted.
 
Hi
try the following formulas on your history sheet
E1: for the new code#
=VLOOKUP(C1,'Existingsheet'!$A$1:$B$100,2,0)
F1: New category1
=VLOOKUP(E1,'new_sheet'!$A$1:$F$100,2,0)
G1:
=VLOOKUP(E1,'new_sheet'!$A$1:$F$100,3,0)
.....
copy these formulas down
 
Will do. Thank you.

Frank Kabel said:
Hi
try the following formulas on your history sheet
E1: for the new code#
=VLOOKUP(C1,'Existingsheet'!$A$1:$B$100,2,0)
F1: New category1
=VLOOKUP(E1,'new_sheet'!$A$1:$F$100,2,0)
G1:
=VLOOKUP(E1,'new_sheet'!$A$1:$F$100,3,0)
....
copy these formulas down
 
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