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Intelligent VLOOKUP
I would like to program an intelligent Vlookup as follows.
I have a set of data spread over 2 columns. Let us say column A is type of Food and column B is actual food-item. for example, here is a short list Column A Column B Vegetable Potatoes Fruit Orange Fruit Banana Vegetable Brocolli Bakery Bread Bakery Croissants Vegetable Spinach Fruit Grapes I would like to program 2 drop-down lists with following requirements The first list has as valid values all the FOOD types (thus Fruit, Vegetable, Bakery). The second list has as valid values all the items that are valid for the selected item in first list. Thus if I select Bakery in drop-down list 1 then in list 2 I should see only Bread and Croissants as choices. Any tips on how to achieve this? FYI: I can sort the data in any order if that can facilitate the vlookup (or any other useful function). |
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Intelligent VLOOKUP
See this:
http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "DKS" wrote in message ... I would like to program an intelligent Vlookup as follows. I have a set of data spread over 2 columns. Let us say column A is type of Food and column B is actual food-item. for example, here is a short list Column A Column B Vegetable Potatoes Fruit Orange Fruit Banana Vegetable Brocolli Bakery Bread Bakery Croissants Vegetable Spinach Fruit Grapes I would like to program 2 drop-down lists with following requirements The first list has as valid values all the FOOD types (thus Fruit, Vegetable, Bakery). The second list has as valid values all the items that are valid for the selected item in first list. Thus if I select Bakery in drop-down list 1 then in list 2 I should see only Bread and Croissants as choices. Any tips on how to achieve this? FYI: I can sort the data in any order if that can facilitate the vlookup (or any other useful function). |
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Thanks that did help.
I am in fact trying to provide this drop-down list in a user-form as part of the "rowsource" property. This seems to work when the form is loaded. However, once the form is loaded - if I change the original value, the dependent values do not change. How can I refresh the "rowsource" property of the drop-down? "Biff" wrote: See this: http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "DKS" wrote in message ... I would like to program an intelligent Vlookup as follows. I have a set of data spread over 2 columns. Let us say column A is type of Food and column B is actual food-item. for example, here is a short list Column A Column B Vegetable Potatoes Fruit Orange Fruit Banana Vegetable Brocolli Bakery Bread Bakery Croissants Vegetable Spinach Fruit Grapes I would like to program 2 drop-down lists with following requirements The first list has as valid values all the FOOD types (thus Fruit, Vegetable, Bakery). The second list has as valid values all the items that are valid for the selected item in first list. Thus if I select Bakery in drop-down list 1 then in list 2 I should see only Bread and Croissants as choices. Any tips on how to achieve this? FYI: I can sort the data in any order if that can facilitate the vlookup (or any other useful function). |
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Intelligent VLOOKUP
I'm not familiar with VBA programming.
Biff "DKS" wrote in message ... Thanks that did help. I am in fact trying to provide this drop-down list in a user-form as part of the "rowsource" property. This seems to work when the form is loaded. However, once the form is loaded - if I change the original value, the dependent values do not change. How can I refresh the "rowsource" property of the drop-down? "Biff" wrote: See this: http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html Biff "DKS" wrote in message ... I would like to program an intelligent Vlookup as follows. I have a set of data spread over 2 columns. Let us say column A is type of Food and column B is actual food-item. for example, here is a short list Column A Column B Vegetable Potatoes Fruit Orange Fruit Banana Vegetable Brocolli Bakery Bread Bakery Croissants Vegetable Spinach Fruit Grapes I would like to program 2 drop-down lists with following requirements The first list has as valid values all the FOOD types (thus Fruit, Vegetable, Bakery). The second list has as valid values all the items that are valid for the selected item in first list. Thus if I select Bakery in drop-down list 1 then in list 2 I should see only Bread and Croissants as choices. Any tips on how to achieve this? FYI: I can sort the data in any order if that can facilitate the vlookup (or any other useful function). |
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