Hello,

I have an excel data formatting gymnastics question.

So say I have a long list of US counties with associated state names.

Then I have a list of each US state with the corresponding employment rate.

How can I take my big long list of every US county in excel and have the column to the right show the employment rate that corresponds to each county.

Essentially I would be matching state employment rate to the name of the state. Sorry, this is challenging for me to articulate!

For example:

I have a list that reads

California - 68%

Wyoming - 56%

I have another list that reads

Blue County, California

Red County, California

Green County, Wyoming

Purple County, Wyoming

Yellow County, California

I want to make it so it will combine to read

Blue County, California - 68%

Red County, California - 68%

Green County, Wyoming - 56%

Purple County, Wyoming - 56%

Yellow County, California - 68%

How can I do this? What command would this even be called in excel?

Thank you!

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