Hi

Instead to have ~10 additional sheets, why not to limit it with one report
sheet, where you can select product type from drop-down, and the table on
report sheet is populated with wanted information?

To get summary info, you can use SUMIF(), COUNTIF(), and SUMPRODUCT()
functions. To get detailed info (rows from main sheet) about product
category, add a hidden column as leftmost into table on main sheet, where
for every row with same product category as selected on report sheet, the
order number is calculated - leaving non-matching rows blank. P.e. for cell
A2
=IF(B2=Report!$B$1,COUNTIF($B$2:$B2,Report!$B$1)," ")
Now you can use LOOKUP() to retrieve information from 1st, or 2nd, etc.
matching rows from main sheet into report sheet.

Another possible solution is to have in main sheet header formulas, where
summary data is calculated using SUBTOTALS() function - depending on
parameter, it calculates various summary values from filtered data.
Now set autofilter for main table on, set filter to desired category - and
here you have only rows for this category displayed, and totals, counts,
averages or whatever you wanted to calculate on top of column(s). So you
will do with a single sheet at all. And when you want, you can also have
some drop-down, where you can select what type of summary data you want, and
have the according SUBTOTALS parameter to be calculated from this selection.


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Arvi Laanemets
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"Kathrine J Wathne" wrote in message
...
What I need help with is the following:
I would like to have it so, that when I fill in information on one row in
the main document (sheet 1), that the whole row (in sheet 1) automatically
will be copy/pasted in the correct underlaying sheet per category (I have
different sheets for different categories).

In the main document (sheet 1) the information is divided into different
product types in each row - however there are about 10 different product
types / categories. When "product 1" is put into the main sheet it would
be nice if this automatically is shown under the sheet "summary for
product 1".

Doing so enables me to have a correct sub-total per category which can
eventually be linked to the "total-sheet".

Any suggestions on how to do this correctly? Hope you understand my
question :-)

Kathrine