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Help: foreign key reference in Excel
Hi there,
I want to do a simple "foreign key reference" in Excel. I have a worksheet storing product information, which has a "product ID" column and a "product Price" column. We often need to create new worksheets for quotations. In the new worksheet, I will type in the product items our customers want, and I want a quick and easy way to fill up the price column in my quotation worksheet. It shhould work very similarly to a database foreign key reference. Some special features in my case: 1. We prefer not to create a database to do this 2. The "product information" table is not accurate, and the "product ID" column cannot be a true primary key column. For example, products coming from different suppliers may have the same product ID; and different workers may use slightly different product IDs, such as "MS-1001" vs. "MS 1001" vs. "MS1001". If the solution can be in a way intelligent to recognize this, it would be great. 3. We don't want to make the solution over-complicated, such as spending thousands of hours to develop an application for this. Your generous help is appreciated. Thanks, Richard |
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Help: foreign key reference in Excel
the built in lookup functions such as vlookup can do this with a standard
database paradigm. If you want to make it intelligent, you can put in a dummy column that contains a formula to standarize entries as intelligently as you want to create it. (include concatenating more than one column to make a unique key) You can also look at a combination of the Index and match functions. See help for details. As for duplicate entries, again, you can use your dummy column to make them unique. It will be as intelligent as you want to make it. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy noname wrote in message om... Hi there, I want to do a simple "foreign key reference" in Excel. I have a worksheet storing product information, which has a "product ID" column and a "product Price" column. We often need to create new worksheets for quotations. In the new worksheet, I will type in the product items our customers want, and I want a quick and easy way to fill up the price column in my quotation worksheet. It shhould work very similarly to a database foreign key reference. Some special features in my case: 1. We prefer not to create a database to do this 2. The "product information" table is not accurate, and the "product ID" column cannot be a true primary key column. For example, products coming from different suppliers may have the same product ID; and different workers may use slightly different product IDs, such as "MS-1001" vs. "MS 1001" vs. "MS1001". If the solution can be in a way intelligent to recognize this, it would be great. 3. We don't want to make the solution over-complicated, such as spending thousands of hours to develop an application for this. Your generous help is appreciated. Thanks, Richard |
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