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Excel help

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:10 pm
by qupe
Can anyone help me please?

I want to create and excel spreadsheet where you have a box to enter a postcode. When you enter the postcode it checks a specific list and then i want a box below to display a message like east, west, north, south.

I am not sure what to do and what to search for.

Re: Excel help

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:26 pm
by Errkal
I think this matches mostly what you mean.

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-que ... gions.html

Re: Excel help

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:09 pm
by Rhubarb
Yeah presumably if you've already got the list of post codes and regions you can smash that in a separate table and it'll just be a vlookup using whatever value you enter?

Re: Excel help

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:15 pm
by Errkal
You can download post codes from the post office is CSV etc.

Re: Excel help

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:23 pm
by qupe
Thanks both. This pointed me to the vlookup function and formula that worked a treat :)