Lists, Validation and update of values.

[bennialexander]

Greetings all,

I was wondering if somebody would be able to help me with lists here without it being too complicated, I am, unfortunately, a little lame in the applications area, since I am a network engineer.

Here's my issue.

Assume three columns:
A - Category, B is Item, and C is Price.

This is what I am trying to create e.g.:

List of things to buy this week:

Vegetables
Fruits
Meat

Depending on what I choose, it should give me a sub-list in the adjacent column, where if Vegetables is selected, then only a list of vegetables in the list are shown.

So far, so good. I.e., I managed to do that.

Now here is where I am stuck.

1. I need that once I select the vegetables, e.g. Cauliflower, the price of the item should be automatically displayed in the column C, i.e. it should pick the prices from the adjacent worksheet.

2. If I were to change the category in the column, then the corresponding adjacent cells (item and price) should be reset, i.e. be blank.

Could somebody please help me out with this?

Thanks a lot.

With best regards,
Benni

bennialexander@ureach.com

 

[Von Pookie]

I didn't bother to set up any dropdown lists or anything for this example, but would this work for you?

Edit: This will work if all of your items are in the same column (like I have).

Book1
	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	Category	Item	Price		Vegetables
2	Vegetables	Cauliflower	$1.25		Cauliflower	$1.25
3		Spinach	$3.00		Carrot	$2.50
4					Spinach	$3.00
5	Meat	Chicken	$4.35		Meat
6		Beef	$5.50		Beef	$5.50
7					Chicken	$4.35
Sheet1

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

I didn't bother to set up any dropdown lists or anything for this example, but would this work for you?

...

=IF(B2="","",VLOOKUP(B2,E1:F7,2,FALSE))

...

You need to lock

E1:F7

though.

 

[bennialexander]

Hi Von,

Hi! Yes, absolutely. That is great. Thanks a lot.

Now, how do *I* do it? Or would you baby-feed me by sending me the file at my email address?

BTW, does this also blank the adjacent cells, e.g. if I were to change the category to something else e.g. if I change the existing value (e.g. Vegetables) in categories to e.g. meat?

Thanks once again.

With best regards,
Ben

 

[Von Pookie]

Ooh, good catch Aladin. I just hurried through it and didn't bother.

Ben,

This file from The Office Experts can probably explain it much better than I could: http://www.theofficeexperts.com/downloads/MyVlookup.zip

 

[bennialexander]

Greetings once again,

BTW, can I also have the database on another worksheet and refer to it there?

Thanks.

With best regards,
Ben

 

[Von Pookie]

Ben,

You should be able to do this from a separate sheet.

 

[Zack Barresse]

btw, named ranges work excellent for cross-sheet equations, and tidy's up your formula a bit. navigation quickens a bit too.