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Help with Look-up formula
I have a list of items, with categories, prices and other information as
follows, A B C ITEM CATEGORY PRICE There are different categories depending on the item, what I need to have is a VLOOKUP formula tha will do the following On different workbook and sheet In column A I want to have a drop down list that will only show items in one category, i.e. "Paper products", and show only the paper products, when I select the item, I need the price looked up and placed in colum B. The main list has over 300 items, in about 8 categories, for this particular Lookup I only want it to show one category in this case paper products. Any ideas and help would be apprecited |
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Help with Look-up formula
Take a look at this:
http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "JackR" wrote in message ... I have a list of items, with categories, prices and other information as follows, A B C ITEM CATEGORY PRICE There are different categories depending on the item, what I need to have is a VLOOKUP formula tha will do the following On different workbook and sheet In column A I want to have a drop down list that will only show items in one category, i.e. "Paper products", and show only the paper products, when I select the item, I need the price looked up and placed in colum B. The main list has over 300 items, in about 8 categories, for this particular Lookup I only want it to show one category in this case paper products. Any ideas and help would be apprecited |
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I tried that and it wont work. Any other ideas
"Biff" wrote: Take a look at this: http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "JackR" wrote in message ... I have a list of items, with categories, prices and other information as follows, A B C ITEM CATEGORY PRICE There are different categories depending on the item, what I need to have is a VLOOKUP formula tha will do the following On different workbook and sheet In column A I want to have a drop down list that will only show items in one category, i.e. "Paper products", and show only the paper products, when I select the item, I need the price looked up and placed in colum B. The main list has over 300 items, in about 8 categories, for this particular Lookup I only want it to show one category in this case paper products. Any ideas and help would be apprecited |
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I tried that and it wont work. Any other ideas
Hmmm......it should! Which would you prefer...........one long list or 8 smaller lists, one for each category? If you want to use the one long list you'd have to have it sorted by category. Let me know and I'll put together a sample file that demonstrates this. Biff "JackR" wrote in message ... I tried that and it wont work. Any other ideas "Biff" wrote: Take a look at this: http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "JackR" wrote in message ... I have a list of items, with categories, prices and other information as follows, A B C ITEM CATEGORY PRICE There are different categories depending on the item, what I need to have is a VLOOKUP formula tha will do the following On different workbook and sheet In column A I want to have a drop down list that will only show items in one category, i.e. "Paper products", and show only the paper products, when I select the item, I need the price looked up and placed in colum B. The main list has over 300 items, in about 8 categories, for this particular Lookup I only want it to show one category in this case paper products. Any ideas and help would be apprecited |
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I have a workbook that demonstrates what I think you want.
If you want, send me an email and I will send it to you. Regards, Howard "JackR" wrote in message ... I have a list of items, with categories, prices and other information as follows, A B C ITEM CATEGORY PRICE There are different categories depending on the item, what I need to have is a VLOOKUP formula tha will do the following On different workbook and sheet In column A I want to have a drop down list that will only show items in one category, i.e. "Paper products", and show only the paper products, when I select the item, I need the price looked up and placed in colum B. The main list has over 300 items, in about 8 categories, for this particular Lookup I only want it to show one category in this case paper products. Any ideas and help would be apprecited |
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