Chip

Becuase the textbox is on a sheet that is all calculations, i am enabling
this macro when the worksheet is selected. Therefore I have changed it to a
worksheet activate event.

I can't seem to get it to work. Does it matter that the values in the text
box are "text", and the table it is looking up the value to is a "number"?
Listed below is what I have so far. (The range is defined as BuyerTable)

Thanks


Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()

Dim Res As Variant
Res = Application.VLookup(Me.Buyer_Num_Margo.Text,
Worksheets("Validation tables").Range("BuyerTable"), 2, False)
If IsError(Res) = False Then
Me.Buyer_Name_Margo.Text = Res
End If

End Sub



Jeff


"Chip Pearson" wrote:

Use code like the following in the sheet's code module. Change
the lookup range to suit your needs.

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyUp(ByVal KeyCode As
MSForms.ReturnInteger, ByVal Shift As Integer)
Dim Res As Variant
If KeyCode = vbKeyReturn Then
Res = Application.VLookup(Me.TextBox1.Text,
Range("A1:B5"), 2, False)
If IsError(Res) = False Then
Me.TextBox2.Text = Res
End If
End If
End Sub

It will run the lookup when you press the Enter key.


--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"jeffbert" wrote in message
...
I have a textbox that shows a number. I need another text box on
the same
sheet to lookup that number and show the corresponding
description that
relates to that number.

EX:

974 - (Text Box 1)
Bob - (Text box 2)


Text box 2 looks up the value of text box 1 in a table and
returns the value
in column 2.