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Autofill data
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I am new to excel and have a question regarding cells being filled with data automatically If I want to have a cell that contains a product, how do i get the cell next to it to fill in the price automatically - I guess i am going to have to have a set of prices allocated to a product somewhere in the sheet so it calls the info in from this list? Hope you kow what i mean regards mark |
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Hi Mark
Look in the Excel help for the Vlookup formula Post back if you need more help -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Mark Reynolds" <Mark wrote in message ... Hi I am new to excel and have a question regarding cells being filled with data automatically If I want to have a cell that contains a product, how do i get the cell next to it to fill in the price automatically - I guess i am going to have to have a set of prices allocated to a product somewhere in the sheet so it calls the info in from this list? Hope you kow what i mean regards mark |
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Hi Mark
here's an answer i posted a while back to a very similar question ... --- use a combination of data / validation to create the drop down list and VLOOKUP function to populate the related information assuming that in Sheet2 you have the following ..........A..............B 1......Item.......Value 2..... Item1....10.00 3. .....Item2....15.00 4. ....Item3......20.00 now select from A1 to the end of your list (A4, in the above example) and choose from the menu, Insert / Name / Create - ensure Top Row is checked and click okay - you've created a named range called "Item" (or whatever the title in A1 is) now select from A1 to the end of the list for all columns (B4 in the above example) and click inside the name box (left of formula bar) and type MyTable and press enter - we've created a second named range. Now click in the cell in Sheet1 where you want your drop down list to appear and choose Data / Validation from the menu - in the settings tab, choose List from the Allow drop down box and then click inside the white box under this and press the F3 key - this will bring up a list of your range names, choose "Item" (or whatever your first range was called) and click Ok. You will now have a drop down list in this cell. Now click in the cell where you want the related information to appear and type =VLOOKUP(A1,MyTable,2,false) where A1 is the cell reference with your drop down list in it - you can use the F3 key for the MyTable bit too. now choose an item & see the related information appear ... delete the item and you'll get a #NA error - this can be supressed by embedding your VLOOKUP in an IF statement e.g. =IF(A1="","",VLOOKUP(A1,MyTable,2,false)) where A1 is the cell reference with your drop down list in it hope this helps, let us know how you go Cheers JulieD "Mark Reynolds" <Mark wrote in message ... Hi I am new to excel and have a question regarding cells being filled with data automatically If I want to have a cell that contains a product, how do i get the cell next to it to fill in the price automatically - I guess i am going to have to have a set of prices allocated to a product somewhere in the sheet so it calls the info in from this list? Hope you kow what i mean regards mark |
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