My problem with vlookup is from my understanding is that the data has to be
in the same colum and the value that i am trying to return from the match is
a range on another worksheet and from my understanding of vlookup it cant
return a defined name

"Anne Troy" wrote:

No code necessary, Noel. Likely you can use a vlookup. See the link below.
While you may not want an order form or invoice, you're wanting virtually
the same thing.
http://www.officearticles.com/tutori...soft_excel.htm
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~Anne Troy

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"Noel" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a form that contains conditional drop down lists for
the user to selct from. i want the user to be able when theypick from a
list
i created in cell D3 and when they choose that i want a list to be created
in
cell E3 which contains data from a second worksheet. I was able to make it
work using nested if statements for validation but the problem is that it
wont let me go past 7 and i need to do about 50 of them. To make things
easier i defined names to reference all the data on the second worksheet.
This is what i used and it would work if i could do about 50 of them

=IF(D3=K13,Roc,IF(D3=K14,Roc,IF(D3=K15,Camino,IF(D 3=K16,Camino,IF(D3=K17,Adm
in,IF(D3=K18,Arroyo,IF(D3=K19,Atascadero,IF(D3=K20 ,Grover))))))))
matching the cell D3 to data i used to create the list really just
matching
itself to itself.
I know there has to be some simple VB code to make it work or some simple
solution, and i do have some experience using vb code but not in this kind
of
enviroment.
Does Anyone have any ideas?