This one must be very easy for someone who knows his or her way around
Excel, clearly I dont, (though I have tried) or I would have made some
progress myself.

I have had the pleasure of designing a job card dumped on me at work.
Ive managed that much. However filling in all the fields is tedious
and slow even with data validation/drop-downs. Then, I thought to
myself; all the data required for the cells in the job card is in an
excel spreadsheet in columns headed:-
Account number, Name, Address1, Address2, Address3, Postcode, Phone,
Make, Model, VIN, Date of purchase.
Therefore, it must be possible to achieve some sort of €œauto-complete€�
status.
Consequently what I would like to do is type an account number into
cell A1 on sheet 2, then, on pressing the "enter" key, and by the magic
that is excel programming all relevant details would appear on sheet 1:-
the customers name will appear in cell B5, Address1 will appear in B6,
Address2 will appear in B7, Postcode will appear in B8, Phone number
will appear in B9, Make in B11, Model in B12, VIN in B13, and Date of
purchase in B15.

I have found the vlookup function and can use it (to some extent anyway)
but this requires the input of the coordinates of a cell, whereas I want to
search
using just the value within that cell. The value found in the account number
field
could be alpha, numeric or alphanumeric.

So I have turned to you clever friendly folk for any help or advice you
can give.
I must stress that cutting, pasting and a bit of data validation and a bit
of
vlookup shows the limit of my knowledge of excel.
Consequently simple instructions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much for taking the time
to read this.

John