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garwood

how do I create a drop down list that assigns certain information
 
I am trying to create a drop down list of employes. I would like it to
auotmatically bring up each employees specific pay rate in another cell.

Toppers

how do I create a drop down list that assigns certain information
 
Look at VLOOKUP function.

Create table of names and asociated pay rates.

In your "rate" cell:

=VLOOKUP(name,PayRates,2,0)

where "name" is cell of your drop down

PayRates is named range (2 columns) containinng names & rates

HTH

"garwood" wrote:

I am trying to create a drop down list of employes. I would like it to
auotmatically bring up each employees specific pay rate in another cell.



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