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Trying to create a form for data entry
I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Basically I would
like to create a "invoice" type of form. I can whip it up in Access and generate the report very easily but I am unable to do it in Excel. I am limited to Excel, Word and Filemaker for this task. Trying to avoid Filemaker. The user must be able to pick from a drop downlist the product. I have this working and it works great but we have 10000 lines (yes that isn't a typo), from which to pick from. I would like to be able to create a search function or even break it down into categories, but I don't want the user to have to copy the data from one sheet to another. I was trying this with filter. Any suggestions. Sharon |
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Trying to create a form for data entry
You could do this by pasting the 10,000 product numbers, descriptions
etc into a grid on a tab in the workbook. Highlight the product number and create a named range that refers to that range: a1:a10000, for instance. Hide that tab, and on your invoice tab create an in-cell dropdown (called data validation) that allows entries only from the list that is contained in your named range. That way the user will be able to select the part number or whatever from the dropdown, and the Description, Price etc fields can populate with VLOOKUP formulas in the invoice. |
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