Vlookup problem

[tomlarkin]

I have 2 Excel spreadsheets, one has a list of procedures with effective dates, the other has a list of personnell trained in the procedures with the date trained

Sheet 1 : 3 columns, code, description, effective date

Sheet 2: Employee no, name, code, description, date trained.

I am trying to construct a third sheet, which will combine data from sheets 1 & 2, to give me table highlighting when someone has not been trained on a procedure after the effective date. I am using Vlookup but this will only work for the first person in the database.

Any Ideas

[Corni]

If you start with two sheets in the workbook you could get a third sheet added each time you close the workbook by writing a Workbook_Close event procedure in which you should have code to complete following:
- set up a new column in Sheet2 named Effective Date which is going to use Vlookup for the relevant values from Sheet1
- advanced filter in Sheet2 using as criterion: =E5>F5 (you have three empty rows above the Sheet2 column labels), placed in cell A2; use Copy to another location option, in the same sheet
- copy the filtered list in Sheet3 if you want to have the result placed on a different sheet