Google Sheets change value of text in a cell using Query? - google-sheets

Question

I'd like to be able to change the value of cell, from a number to text - but I'm not sure how to do it?
I have two tabs, Source and Heath Hill.
Heath Hill uses Query to pull in specific cells from the source tab. Here's my formula:
=QUERY(Source!$1:$1000,"select A,AB, D,F where C = 'Heath Hill'",1)
Columns C and D in Heath Hill are numbers, I'd like to be able to replace them with text.
Column C
Replace any number 1 with Business Interest
Replace any number 2 with Representing an interest group
Replace any number 3 with Profession
Column D
Replace any number 1 with Agree
Replace any number 2 with Disagree
Replace any number 3 with Don't know
Here's a link to my example Google Sheet I've simplified it.

Answer 1

Solution
To achive what you are aiming here you will need to use an if function.
The formulas you would need to use are as follow:
For column C : =IF(C2=1,"Business Interest",IF(C2=2,"Representing an interest group","Profession"))
For column D : =IF(C2=1,"Agree",IF(C2=2,"Disagree","Don't know"))
Here is an example of this implementation. I have created a new column for making it easier to visualise and the I just dragged and dropped to include all the values.
I hope this has helped you. Let me know if you need anything else or if you did not understood something. :)

Answer 2

Its better to use App Script instead
function UpdateReplace() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById('Sheet ID');
var doc = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Sheet_Name');
var range = doc.getRange("C2:C");
var data = range.getValues();
for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
data[row][col] = (data[row][col]).toString().replace('1', 'Business Interest');
data[row][col] = (data[row][col]).toString().replace('2', 'Representing an interest group');
data[row][col] = (data[row][col]).toString().replace('3', 'Profession');
}
}
range.setValues(data);
Var range1 = doc.getRange("D2:D");
​Var data1 = range1.getValues();
for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
data1[row][col] = (data1[row][col]).toString().replace('1', 'Agree');
data1[row][col] = (data1[row][col]).toString().replace('2', 'Disagree');
data1[row][col] = (data1[row][col]).toString().replace('2', 'Don't know');
}
}
range1.setValues(data1);
};