automatically populate with values from another workbook

[The Grim Discovery]

Hiya

Could anyone help me to try and do the following.

I'm working across two worksheets in separate workbooks. The first looks like this.

Workbook 1: Team name	Monthly Points total
Tottenham	45
United	41
City	48
Arsenal	31
Burnley	30
Liverpool	42

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While in the second workbook I've got the same teams but in alphabetical order. I'm trying to get the monthly Points total to 'automatically' populate in the second column of the workbook based on the figures from workbook 1. How can I do this? And I'm looking to do for a much larger number of cases, not just the six here.
Lots of thanks in advance.

Workbook 2: Team name	Points total
Arsenal
Burnley
City
Liverpool
Tottenham
United

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[SteveO59L]

have a look at vlookup()

 

[mumps]

Do you want to update workbook2 automatically as you enter each point total in workbook1? In other words, when you enter 45 points for Tottenham, the points are automatically entered in workbook2 for Tottenham.

 

[The Grim Discovery]

Do you want to update workbook2 automatically as you enter each point total in workbook1? In other words, when you enter 45 points for Tottenham, the points are automatically entered in workbook2 for Tottenham.

If that's possible I would.

 

[mumps]

Copy and paste this macro into the worksheet code module. Do the following: In Workbook1, right click the tab for your sheet and click 'View Code'. Paste the macro into the empty code window that opens up. Change the workbook name and the sheet name in the code to suit your needs. Close the code window to return to your sheet. Save Workbook1 as a macro-enabled file. Make sure that Workbook2 is open. In Workbook1, enter a value in column B and exit the cell. Workbook2 will have been updated.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Intersect(Target, Range("B:B")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
    Dim foundTeam As Range
    Set foundTeam = Workbooks("Workbook2.xlsx").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A:A").Find(Target.Offset(0, -1), LookIn:=xlValues, lookat:=xlWhole)
    If Not foundTeam Is Nothing Then
        foundTeam.Offset(0, 1) = Target
    End If
End Sub

 

[The Grim Discovery]

Thanks Mumps - you're a ledge

 

[mumps]

You are very welcome.