i am useing excel 2000 and i have several rubber compound recipes.i have
these recipes in customer files.i have each recipe on one sheet and put the
name of the recipe on the tabs.each costomer file might have up to 20
defferent recipes.and i have another file that i keep a list of all my
ingrediants and the amount that i have in stock.my ?? is. is it possible to
write a code that will automadicly go to my inventory and deduct the amount
of ingrediant of any given recipe that i use.

Excel vba can can certainly be programmed to loop through a section of cells,
pickup the value of the cell and find that value on another sheet, then
subtract the value from the right of the original cell from the cell to the
right of the found cell on another sheet. It can also be programmed to be
given a unique identifier for the recipe and find that identifier by looking
across as many sheets as you specify or just find it on one sheet and then
use the position that cell to fine the block of cells to loop through.

Beyond that, your description does not lend itself specific examples. But
as a demonstration, select one of your customer sheets. Turn on the macro
recorder and do Edit=find and put in the unique identifier/name of that
recipe. Excel should select it. then turn off the macro recorder and go to
the VBE and look at the recorded code. This would be your basic search code.


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"recipe type data" wrote:

i am useing excel 2000 and i have several rubber compound recipes.i have
these recipes in customer files.i have each recipe on one sheet and put the
name of the recipe on the tabs.each costomer file might have up to 20
defferent recipes.and i have another file that i keep a list of all my
ingrediants and the amount that i have in stock.my ?? is. is it possible to
write a code that will automadicly go to my inventory and deduct the amount
of ingrediant of any given recipe that i use.