On Apr 4, 3:12*pm, Gord Dibben wrote:
Certainly possible using sheet event code.

Who/what decides which certain words(or whatever) are placed in the adjacent
column.

Some code to place values in column G at each row where "tool assembly" is input

Not case-sensitive.............

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Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
'when entering data in a cell in Col F
On Error GoTo enditall
* * Application.EnableEvents = False
If Target.Cells.Column = 6 Then
* * * * n = Target.Row
* * * * If Excel.Range("F" & n).Value = "TOOL ASSEMBLY" Then
* * * * * * Excel.Range("G" & n).Value = "A, B, C, D or whatever"
* * * * End If
* * End If
enditall:
* * Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

Gord Dibben * * MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:41:11 -0700 (PDT), john taiariol
wrote:



i would to create VBA code that will bring up a dialogue box if the
words "TOOL ASSEMBLY" are input under column "F". I would like to
place certain words A, B, C, D whatever in a corresponding column on
the same row. Is this possible? any help is greatly appreciated,
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this works great thanks. just one thing, is it possible to look for a
column heading such as "Name" instead of column "F", thanks again for
the help.