I want to organize different types of products using drop down lists:

1) drop down list of manufacturers (easy)

2) depending on the manufacturer chosen I want their SPECIFIC PRODUCTS ONLY
to be seen in the second drop down list

3) once I have chosen the product info in other fields appears such as unit
price, etc

I have been told I cant do this in Excel... is this true?

Yes, you can do this in Excel.

For help on creating Dependent data validation dropdown lists see Debra
Dalgleish's site.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal02.html

For help on VLOOKUP to populate the "other fields" after choosing product
see also at Debra's site.

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


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:42:01 -0800, cp402
wrote:

I want to organize different types of products using drop down lists:

1) drop down list of manufacturers (easy)

2) depending on the manufacturer chosen I want their SPECIFIC PRODUCTS ONLY
to be seen in the second drop down list

3) once I have chosen the product info in other fields appears such as unit
price, etc

I have been told I cant do this in Excel... is this true?

hi
yes it is. it's call cascading combos or dependent combos.
i am assuming that you are using data validation.
see this site for more details on how to set it up.
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

regards
FSt1

"cp402" wrote:

I want to organize different types of products using drop down lists:

1) drop down list of manufacturers (easy)

2) depending on the manufacturer chosen I want their SPECIFIC PRODUCTS ONLY
to be seen in the second drop down list

3) once I have chosen the product info in other fields appears such as unit
price, etc

I have been told I cant do this in Excel... is this true?

Hi

Take a look at a tutorial I wrote on Debra Dalgleish's site
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal15.html

With just 4 defined ranges, you can have as many dependent dropdowns as
you wish

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Regards
Roger Govier

cp402 wrote:
I want to organize different types of products using drop down lists:

1) drop down list of manufacturers (easy)

2) depending on the manufacturer chosen I want their SPECIFIC PRODUCTS ONLY
to be seen in the second drop down list

3) once I have chosen the product info in other fields appears such as unit
price, etc

I have been told I cant do this in Excel... is this true?