I'm sorry if this has been covered before. I searched the archives a
far back as June of 2003 and then my eyes started going googly so
thought I should just ask.

I have just finished entering a long list of 'catalog' type products i
a worksheet. The intent of this is to give our sales people an easy t
follow method of determining the correct part number to order. Th
data has column headers such as: Tester, Manufacturer, Model number
etc. As you can probably guess, a manufacturer will only have certai
models and so on.

Now that the table is complete, Autofilter works nicely for onl
allowing you to select criteria that is applicable to previousl
selected criteria (Brand X only has Model No. 1, 2 and 3 for example).
Unfortunately, my goal is to separate the long list of data from th
end user of this sheet. So I have created a form on another workshee
that I would essentially like to have mimic the autofilter filter quer
in comboboxes. I have learned how to pass data INTO the autofilter bu
have no idea how to query the autofilter to get the current list o
available choices and dynamically update the combobox (and subsequen
combo boxes in the form for that matter).

Is this possible?

Also, as Part 2:
I have a field that does a SUBTOTAL(3,range) to calculate the number o
results returned from the autofilter. When the total is less than
results, I would like to display the complete data for those 5 result
on the user data entry form. How can I pass only the range of th
autofiltered results to the form?

Thanks for all your help!

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I am not sure that I completely follow, but I have an example workbook that
does automatic filtering based upon selection criteria.

Mail me direct if you want a copy (not the anti-spam message in my email
footnote signature).

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HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"motoracer897 " wrote in
message ...
I'm sorry if this has been covered before. I searched the archives as
far back as June of 2003 and then my eyes started going googly so I
thought I should just ask.

I have just finished entering a long list of 'catalog' type products in
a worksheet. The intent of this is to give our sales people an easy to
follow method of determining the correct part number to order. The
data has column headers such as: Tester, Manufacturer, Model number,
etc. As you can probably guess, a manufacturer will only have certain
models and so on.

Now that the table is complete, Autofilter works nicely for only
allowing you to select criteria that is applicable to previously
selected criteria (Brand X only has Model No. 1, 2 and 3 for example).
Unfortunately, my goal is to separate the long list of data from the
end user of this sheet. So I have created a form on another worksheet
that I would essentially like to have mimic the autofilter filter query
in comboboxes. I have learned how to pass data INTO the autofilter but
have no idea how to query the autofilter to get the current list of
available choices and dynamically update the combobox (and subsequent
combo boxes in the form for that matter).

Is this possible?

Also, as Part 2:
I have a field that does a SUBTOTAL(3,range) to calculate the number of
results returned from the autofilter. When the total is less than 5
results, I would like to display the complete data for those 5 results
on the user data entry form. How can I pass only the range of the
autofiltered results to the form?

Thanks for all your help!!


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Hi Bob, I'm interested but couldn't find your email address in th
message.

Thanks
-Chri

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It is not in the email, it is in the posting header, the email tells you how
to adjust it.

Anyway, it is

bob . phillips @ tiscali . co . uk

just remove the spaces

Sorry, spam paranoia.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"motoracer897 " wrote in
message ...
Hi Bob, I'm interested but couldn't find your email address in the
message.

Thanks
-Chris


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