I'm trying to simplify the encoding of text in my spreadsheet with a simple cipher (BEE would become CFF). Is there some convenient way to set up a key ("A->B, B->C, etc.") and then set up an area of the spreadsheet to encode text from reference cells? Besides doing everything by hand without using the spreadsheet, the most time-efficient thing I've thought about is using =IF(mid(A1,1)=A,B,IF(mid(A1,1,1)=B,C,IF... to generate an encoded version of the nth letter in a cell, producing the string of encoded text one letter per cell over a row, and then combining the characters in that row into one cell, and then replacing 'A1' with any other cell to repeat the process. But, this is very inefficient, as I'm spending a lot of cells and time on each cell to be encoded.
Bookmarks