A B C
1 licence No. weight status
2 gmb123r 100
3 gmb234q 150
4 gmb789h 250
5 gmb123r 150
6 gmb123r 275

What I am trying to do is when you type in the licence number and the weight
into coloums A&B, Coloum C returns weither or not the licence is "used" or
"open" and to update for every new row added, recognising that it only takes
away from the one licence total that has been entered.
Licence maximum weights gmb123r=525 so when row 6 is entered all 3 rows
would now say "used"
Also if possible if you entered a weight that took licence gmb123r over its
weight allowance coloum C would say "too much"

put in C2 and copy down

=IF(SUMIF($A$2:A2,A2,$B$2:B2)Maxwt,"too much","used")

Replace "Maxwt" with formula(?) e.g. VLOOKUP, to get the maximum weight for
a given licence number.

HTH

"B.H.JIG" wrote:

A B C
1 licence No. weight status
2 gmb123r 100
3 gmb234q 150
4 gmb789h 250
5 gmb123r 150
6 gmb123r 275

What I am trying to do is when you type in the licence number and the weight
into coloums A&B, Coloum C returns weither or not the licence is "used" or
"open" and to update for every new row added, recognising that it only takes
away from the one licence total that has been entered.
Licence maximum weights gmb123r=525 so when row 6 is entered all 3 rows
would now say "used"
Also if possible if you entered a weight that took licence gmb123r over its
weight allowance coloum C would say "too much"

"status"
C2: =IF(D2525,"OVER",IF(D2<525,"Open","Used"))

"used"
D2: =SUMIF(A:A,A2,B:B)

"available"
E2: =525-D2

For other examples of SUMIF, see
SUMIF Example
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/sumif.htm

You could use Conditional Formatting to color rows or cells
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm

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David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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"B.H.JIG" wrote in message ...
A B C
1 licence No. weight status
2 gmb123r 100
3 gmb234q 150
4 gmb789h 250
5 gmb123r 150
6 gmb123r 275

What I am trying to do is when you type in the licence number and the weight
into coloums A&B, Coloum C returns weither or not the licence is "used" or
"open" and to update for every new row added, recognising that it only takes
away from the one licence total that has been entered.
Licence maximum weights gmb123r=525 so when row 6 is entered all 3 rows
would now say "used"
Also if possible if you entered a weight that took licence gmb123r over its
weight allowance coloum C would say "too much"

See Topper's reply which was a whole day earlier and
a better answer and recognized that different trucks(?)
would probably have different weight limits.

Some help with VLOOKUP Worksheet Function
mentioned can be seen in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/vlookup.htm