I believe you're looking for VLOOKUP. Here's a tutorial on something similar
to what you want to do:
http://www.officearticles.com/tutori...soft_excel.htm
And here's an explanation of VLOOKUP:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm

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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"mayoslc" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet with 4 tabs. Tab 4 is the master list with the
information I need. Tab 1 is a modeling spreadsheet whereby you enter
information and it takes the information from tab 1 onto tab 2 which
calculates the information you just entered. I am trying to create a cell
on
tab 1 which I can enter a property ID number and it will go to tab 4 and
capture certain information in a certain cell, then transfer the
information
onto designated cells on tab 1. Has anyone done this before? I have seen
it
done where you can enter a social security number in a field and it will
populate the information into the cells.