Thanks for your ideas. I found conditional formatting kept making the whole cell one colour but I'm happy to do it if it works. I have attached an example workbook as suggested, if that helps.
Posts by Confusedexcelchick22
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I have a multi-step problem I am trying to solve with either Google Sheets or Excel. First, I have a sheet which lists all the names and the assigned classes and I need to find occurrences of the Class name and put each of the names into a single cell next to the Class name. Then, on another sheet I have each of the names linked to one of four colours. I then need to pull the matching colour from this sheet and apply it to each instance of the name in the cell.
Eg.
Worksheet 1
This kid Class A Class C Class B That kid Class C Class D Class H Your kid Class B Class A Class E Other kid Class E Class F Class A Worksheet 2
This kid
That kid
Your kid
Other kid
Worksheet 3 (Final product)
Class A This kid; That kid; Other kid Class B Other kid; Your kid; That kid; This kid I have been struggling with this for a couple of years and would appreciate any help I could get.