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Greetings, I need some help with excell. I have an access database that serves a a dictionary. There are two colums, one serving as the terms and th second serving as the definitions. By creating a form in Acess I wa able to make the term coloum serachable. When the word was found that wanted, I could press enter and the definition in the correspondin colum would appear. I am trying to get this same effect in excel, yet I am not sure how t do it. Someone mentioned using pivit tables and forms. I would apreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Da -- dfisch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- dfisch8's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=2651 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=39782 |
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A simple form with a textbox for the word, and a (larger) textbox for the
definition, with a Search button. Assuming that the data is all in a worksheet called Words, with the words in column A, and the definitions in column B, the code for the button would be Private Sub cmdSearch_Click() Dim iPos As Long With Textbox1 If .Text < "" Then iPos = Application.Match(.Text,Worksheets("Words").Range( "A:A"),0) If iPos = 0 Then Textbox2.Text = "Word not found" Else Textbox2.Text = Application.Index(Worksheets("Words").Range("A:A") ,iPos) End If End If End With End Sub -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "dfisch8" wrote in message ... Greetings, I need some help with excell. I have an access database that serves as a dictionary. There are two colums, one serving as the terms and the second serving as the definitions. By creating a form in Acess I was able to make the term coloum serachable. When the word was found that I wanted, I could press enter and the definition in the corresponding colum would appear. I am trying to get this same effect in excel, yet I am not sure how to do it. Someone mentioned using pivit tables and forms. I would apreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Dan -- dfisch8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dfisch8's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26515 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397822 |
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greetings, thanks for the prompt reply. I seem to be having issues getting this code to work, could you provide me with your e-mail and I can send you my spreadsheet? If you could input it for me I would apreciate it. thanks, dan -- dfisch8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dfisch8's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26515 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397822 |
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bob dot phillips at tiscali dot co dot uk
do the obvious -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "dfisch8" wrote in message ... greetings, thanks for the prompt reply. I seem to be having issues getting this code to work, could you provide me with your e-mail and I can send you my spreadsheet? If you could input it for me I would apreciate it. thanks, dan -- dfisch8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dfisch8's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26515 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397822 |
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