OK, I tried that and I keep getting #N/A. Here's what I have

........R.................S.......................
1....SHIFT...........HOURS................
2....8-5...............8.....................
3....7-5...............9.....................

My drop down is in cell B4 and uses validation from the above lists.

formula:

=vlookup(B4,$R$2:$S$10,2,TRUE)

All it will give me is a #N/A error.

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

then you can use the VLOOKUP function

assuming you have a table somewhere (maybe sheet 2) with
...........A..................B................... ......C
1.....Shift...............Start Time............End Time
2.....AM..............06:00....................... .18:00

etc
then with your drop down on sheet 1 cell A1
click in B1 (or where you want the start time returned to) and type
=VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet2!$A$2:$C$10,2,0)
for the end time it would be
=VLOOKUP(A1,Sheet2!$A$2:$C$10,3,0)

hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD

"brodiemac" wrote in message
...
Very close and thank you for the suggestion. I'm not looking for a
dropdown
in the second cell. I want the second cell to auto-populate with data
associated with what was selected in the drop down in the first cell.

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

maybe this is what you're looking for
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Cheers
JulieD

"brodiemac" wrote in message
...
I'm creating a new sheet to assign shifts for my employees. I want to
have a
drop down in one cell where I can pick shift times then in the next
cell,
have the hours automatically picked in assiciation with the shift.
I've
already created the drop down using validation but am not sure how to
get
the
second cell to automatically picks the hours associated with the shift.
Is
this a vlookup function or other?