Question

I have an Excel file with Zeros (0 = No) and Ones (1 = Yes) in columns L thru V. Depending on what their answers are in those columns, I want to put some text in column Z. For instance:

0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 

If all of those cells are 0, put “Beginner” in Z

1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0

would be “Learner” — all the way through:

1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

would be “Expert”.

I tried different variations of IF-THEN-ELSE and the SELECT CASE function but I can’t seem to get anything to work right. I know that I’m going to have to loop through the rows (there are about 500) but how do I tell Excel what I want?

Forgot to mention, data could also look like this

0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

I’ve got about 50 different scenarios that show up.

Answer 1

You could concatenate the answers into a string and choose your output based on that.

For r = 1 To 500
Answers = ""

For c = 12 To 22
    Answers = Answers & Cells(r, c)
Next c

Select Case Answers
    Case "00000000000"
        Cells(r, 26) = "Beginner"
    Case "10000000000"
        Cells(r, 26) = "Learner"
    Case "11110000000"
        Cells(r, 26) = "Sophomore"
    Case "11111111111"
        Cells(r, 26) = "Expert"
    Case Else
        Cells(r, 26) = "<something else>"
End Select

Next r

Edit:
Depending on how complex your rules are, you may be better off using if-then-elseif-else, because then you can use the Like operator, which lets you use wildcards.

If Answers = "00000000000" Then
    output = "Beginner"
ElseIf Answers = "11111111111" Then
    output = "Expert"
ElseIf Answers Like "1111*" Then
    output = "Sophomore"
Else
    output = "other"
End If