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Drop Downs and lookups from other sheets
I have a workbook where the front sheet is a display page and the three
sheets behind are reserved for data tables. What I want to do is have one cell in the front page which is a drop down and selects names from one of the tables on the other sheets. From there I can use Vlookup to populate the info from the tables on the front page based on that name. The problem is I can't seem to get this list of names from another sheet. Every time I try, I get an error. How would I do this? thanks! |
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Drop Downs and lookups from other sheets
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first insert a name for your list in the other sheet, go to insert, name, for example use "mylist", choose the range in the other sheet then go to data validation, in the allow field enter List, source enter =mylist "TheDrescher" wrote: I have a workbook where the front sheet is a display page and the three sheets behind are reserved for data tables. What I want to do is have one cell in the front page which is a drop down and selects names from one of the tables on the other sheets. From there I can use Vlookup to populate the info from the tables on the front page based on that name. The problem is I can't seem to get this list of names from another sheet. Every time I try, I get an error. How would I do this? thanks! |
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Drop Downs and lookups from other sheets
Are you using data validation to give you the drop-down of names? You
will need something like this, assuming the drop-down is in A1 and your sought-value is in B1: =VLOOKUP(B1,INDIRECT(A1),2,0) Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 19, 3:17*pm, TheDrescher wrote: I have a workbook where the front sheet is a display page and the three sheets behind are reserved for data tables. *What I want to do is have one cell in the front page which is a drop down and selects names from one of the tables on the other sheets. *From there I can use Vlookup to populate the info from the tables on the front page based on that name. *The problem is I can't seem to get this list of names from another sheet. *Every time I try, I get an error. *How would I do this? *thanks! |
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