I'm having some trouble with a rather convoluted Excel issue, but I think I have my problem figured out.
Lets use successful pets as an example. We have three pets, a cat, a dog, and a bird. The cat and bird were both successful at jumping through a hoop, but the dog wasn't. I have those results listed in one table:
Sheet1: http://imgur.com/LtrMWQY
I also have another table which lists my pets:
Sheet2: http://imgur.com/Prq12Md
In Sheet2 B2, I would like to have a formula that will return the word "Success." I can't seem to get a function to work for this.
The logical progression that I see is to first identify which cell holds the word "Cat" in Sheet1. Then I would need to set up an if statement searching for the word Success in that cell.
I have the second part down: =IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("successful",Sheet1!A1)), "Success", "Fail")
What I need to do now is write something that will search out and populate the "Sheet1!A1" portion of the above function by searching Sheet1 column A for the value in Sheet2 cell A2. Can anyone help with this or get me pointed in the right direction?
Thank you in advance.