Conditional Drop Down List Help, VLOOKUP and INDIRECT

ramseysearcy

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DOORSTYLELANDENAVALONSAYBROOKEOAKLAND
LANDEN
AVALONMAPLEMAPLEBIRCHOAK
SAYBROOKEOAK
OAKLAND
WESTBURYANTIQUE PAINTAUTUMNAUTUMNNATURAL
SINCLAIRAUTUMNCAFÉCAFÉSADDLE
PIONEERCAFÉFAWNFAWNSARSAPARILLA
GRAYSONFAWNJAVA GLAZEJAVA GLAZEUMBER
RADFORDFLAGSTONENATURALNATURALWHEAT
KORBETTJAVA GLAZEPUM. GLAZEPUM. GLAZESTANDARD
WINSTEADNATURALROUGEROUGE
TEAGANPUM. GLAZESADDLESADDLE
EASTLANDROUGESARSAPARILLASARSAPARILLA
WENTWORTHSADDLEUMBERUMBER
BRIARCLIFFSARSAPARILLASTANDARDSTANDARD
AYDENUMBER
DRYDENWHITE PAINT
HARRISONPAINT
BENTONSTANDARD
DURHAM
OVERTON
AUGUSTA5-PIECESLAB5-PIECESLAB
NANTUCKETSLABSLAB

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Forgive me I have been doing my research on this and I am just not grasping if there is a way to do what I want with so many different variables. I have tried =INDIRECT but I run into an issue with the names. For example B1:B27 is my Door Styles. I made a list of them and named them DoorStyles, and then put them across the top as reference. From there I labeled D2:D4 as LandenWoods because they are the woods for Landen Door style. The next long list that starts Antique and ends Standard is the Color and I named it LandenColors, they are the colors Landen is available in. Then finally at bottom there is 5-Piece and Slab, I named them LandenDetails. Ok so when I start making what I want it looks like this:

Door StyleWoodColorDetails

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I need drop downs for each space under those headers. I run into error issues because of the fact there is multiple colors that can use the same type of wood but not the same doorstyle. I know this is asking a lot but can anyone please help. I am using excel 2010, thanks in advance.
 

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try this,

data validation for
B27 =Sheet2!$B$2:$B$3
C27 =Sheet2!$C$2:$C$16
D27 =Sheet2!$D$2:$D$3


Excel 2012
ABCDEFGHIJ
1DOORSTYLELANDENAVALONSAYBROOKEOAKLANDWESTBURYSINCLAIRPIONEER
2LANDEN
3AVALONMAPLEMAPLEBIRCHOAK
4SAYBROOKEOAK
5OAKLAND
6WESTBURYANTIQUE PAINTAUTUMNAUTUMNNATURAL
7SINCLAIRAUTUMNCAFCAFSADDLE
8PIONEERCAFFAWNFAWNSARSAPARILLA
9GRAYSONFAWNJAVA GLAZEJAVA GLAZEUMBER
10RADFORDFLAGSTONENATURALNATURALWHEAT
11KORBETTJAVA GLAZEPUM. GLAZEPUM. GLAZESTANDARD
12WINSTEADNATURALROUGEROUGE
13TEAGANPUM. GLAZESADDLESADDLE
14EASTLANDROUGESARSAPARILLASARSAPARILLA
15WENTWORTHSADDLEUMBERUMBER
16BRIARCLIFFSARSAPARILLASTANDARDSTANDARD
17AYDENUMBER
18DRYDENWHITE PAINT
19HARRISONPAINT
20BENTONSTANDARD
21DURHAM
22OVERTON
23AUGUSTA5-PIECESLAB5-PIECESLAB
24NANTUCKETSLABSLAB
25
26Door StyleWoodColorDetails
27LANDENOAKSARSAPARILLA5-PIECE
28
Sheet1


sheet 2 is with all the options that can be hidden


Excel 2012
ABCD
1Door StyleWoodColorDetails
2MAPLEANTIQUE PAINT5-PIECE
3OAKAUTUMNSLAB
4CAF
5FAWN
6FLAGSTONE
7JAVA GLAZE
8NATURAL
9PUM. GLAZE
10ROUGE
11SADDLE
12SARSAPARILLA
13UMBER
14WHITE PAINT
15PAINT
16STANDARD
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2{=IF(IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$3:$D$4),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),"")=0,"",IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$3:$D$4),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),""))}
C2{=IF(IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$6:$D$20),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),"")=0,"",IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$6:$D$20),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),""))}
D2{=IF(IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$23:$D$24),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),"")=0,"",IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet1!$D$1:$G$24,SMALL(ROW(Sheet1!$D$23:$D$24),ROW(Sheet1!D1)),MATCH(Sheet1!$A$27,Sheet1!$D$1:$Z$1,0)),""))}
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to enter array formulas.
 
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