I'm not the most computer friendly person so Ill my best try to decade what
I want to do: Fist my reference has three columns:
Column A Column B Column C
Item Name Cost Level

Some Items have different cost to them (some different cost for different
levels) (I have put into list)

Where I want the information displayed I have the Items Names as a List. And
I want to use the vlookup to display the (cost and level) in the next to
columns. Is there a way that vlookup can read the lists in my reference. It
just displays it as a blank cell.

Say your datalist is in A1 to C50.
Say your drop-down list is in F1, and you want to display the cost in G1,
and the level in H1.

Enter this formula in G1:

=IF(F1="","",VLOOKUP($F1,$A$1:$C$50,COLUMN(B1),0))

Then, copy this formula to H1.

Now, each change of the choice in the drop-down list will result in the
appropriate price and level being displayed in G1 and H1.

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HTH,

RD

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"john" wrote in message
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I'm not the most computer friendly person so Ill my best try to decade
what
I want to do: Fist my reference has three columns:
Column A Column B Column C
Item Name Cost Level

Some Items have different cost to them (some different cost for different
levels) (I have put into list)

Where I want the information displayed I have the Items Names as a List.
And
I want to use the vlookup to display the (cost and level) in the next to
columns. Is there a way that vlookup can read the lists in my reference.
It
just displays it as a blank cell.

john

See Debra Dalgleish's site for more on VLOOKUP and Data
Validation lists for entering the choices.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlFunctions02.html

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal01.html

Note the section on using DV lists from another worksheet by naming the list.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 20 May 2007 07:19:00 -0700, john wrote:

I'm not the most computer friendly person so I’ll my best try to decade what
I want to do: Fist my reference has three columns:
Column A Column B Column C
Item Name Cost Level

Some Items have different cost to them (some different cost for different
levels) (I have put into list)

Where I want the information displayed I have the Items Names as a List. And
I want to use the vlookup to display the (cost and level) in the next to
columns. Is there a way that vlookup can read the lists in my reference. It
just displays it as a blank cell.