Hello,

I am working with budgets, for each item I have a Name, Unit, and Price per
unit then I just specify a Quantity multiply it by the Price per unit and get
a Total...

So far what I have is a Excel sheet with Name, Unit and Ppu, I made it to a
List, and defined a Name for the item's Name column, so each entry I add
automatically becomes part of it. Then on another sheet I used Data
Validation to choose from those Names from the List, the Unit and Ppu are
then taken from the "database sheet" with a VLOOKUP formula and then I just
enter a Quantity and get a subtotal.

It works great, but I would like to separate the database from the file, to
make the file lighter and to have other people being able to use it too. Does
anybody know how to:

A) Take that info from a Access database, so far my attempts copy the whole
database as a table to the Excel sheet, I would like to have it as I have it
right now, just not having all the database data inside the Excel file, or,

B) Take that info from a different Excel file, the problem with that is that
Data Validation is only allowed from the same file

thanks in advance