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I have a table as listed below:

ITEM QTY. UNITS GROUP CATEGORY ALLOWANCE COST
Design Costs by Ka Homes Designer 1 EA ? G
Drafting Costs 1 EA ? G
Duplicating Costs 1 EA ? G
Engineering Costs 1 EA ? G
Preliminary stake-out 1 EA ? L
Site Survey Costs 1 EA ? G
Not in Bid / By Owner *
Not in Bid / Not Applicable -



In another worksheet, I have a combo box that references column A (ITEM).
How do I set up the combo box so when I select "Drafting Costs", the column
to the right fill in with the corresponding data? The furthest I've gotten
is to have only the column to the right of my combo box change, not all of
the columns.

Thanks
Neil


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How about using Data|Validation?

Then you could use a formula like:

=if(a1="","",vlookup(a1,sheet2!a:c,2,false))

Debra Dalgleish has some nice instructions at:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html
for Data|validation

and instructions for =vlookup() at:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html

Neil wrote:

I have a table as listed below:

ITEM QTY. UNITS GROUP CATEGORY ALLOWANCE COST
Design Costs by Ka Homes Designer 1 EA ? G
Drafting Costs 1 EA ? G
Duplicating Costs 1 EA ? G
Engineering Costs 1 EA ? G
Preliminary stake-out 1 EA ? L
Site Survey Costs 1 EA ? G
Not in Bid / By Owner *
Not in Bid / Not Applicable -

In another worksheet, I have a combo box that references column A (ITEM).
How do I set up the combo box so when I select "Drafting Costs", the column
to the right fill in with the corresponding data? The furthest I've gotten
is to have only the column to the right of my combo box change, not all of
the columns.

Thanks
Neil


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