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Debra Dalgleish Debra Dalgleish is offline
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Default Drop down lists

You could use a VLookup formula to check your vendor list, find the
vendor you selected, and return the type of service.

There's an example here, based on an order form:

http://www.contextures.com/xlOrderForm01.html

In the example, you select a product and its price is returned.

Don wrote:
OssieMac,

Thank you for the response. I did what you said but with me being new to
the drop down function. I used data validation to create the list that i
needed and to tranfer to my work sheet. I don't know if I need to create a
formula to complete what I want. Or maybe it can't be done? I will try to
explain what I want - On my data source page in column A I have the name of
the vendor and in B the type of service they provide. On my target work
sheet in column A is where the information from my drop down list is
transferred. I would like the information in column B from my source
transfer to column G on my target. Right now on my source I only have column
A as my source. Maybe I need to include both A & B as my source then go to
my target work sheet and create a formula that will transfer corresponding
data to A & G. I appreciate any help or direction that you can give.

Thanks



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