Golden Age
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I've posted these questions but I've heard no response, maybe my Topic name was terrible, or noone could understand a word I wrote or maybe I'm blacklisted. I'm still hopeful someone might help me out, tho.
So here's my spreadsheet:
Just to clarify, the words "Rogue Skills" in cell k23 is actually a selection from a Validation List which includes all those Bold titles (Paranormal Studies, Physical Skills on over to Transportation Skills). And also, while this EXAMPLE is all taking place on the worksheet "data!", I actually want these Validation Lists and Column Lists to appear on the worksheet "skills!"
I would like to know:
1) How can I make a choice from my Validation List ("Rogue Skills") and ALL the skills underneath (from "Cardsharp" down to "Tailing") appear in cells L23 down to L38?
2) How can I make Excel randomly choose "Pick Locks" or "Pick Pockets"?
3) How can the next Validation List box wisely appear immediately under and to the left (K39 or K40 if I want some whitespace) of all those skills so that I can repeat what I did for question 1 over and over again?
4) If my next Validation List choice is Physical Skills, there will be an unwanted duplication of the skill "Prowl". How can I weed out duplicates?
5) And rather than having all those "Hand to Hand:" skills in one cell (like "Pick Locks" and "Pick Pockets" were necessarily arranged) to choose between, how can I make Excel choose one "Hand to Hand:" skill randomly? So that this skill list will extend from cells L38 down to L56 (assuming no whitespace, the skill "Prowl" was omitted and one "Hand to Hand:" was randomly chosen).
Answers to these questions will keep me going for weeks and weeks and weeks..... because I have buckets of data that need to follow the same principle except sometimes my choice won't be from a Validation List, but a Checkbox or Optionbox or simply a Named Range typed into a cell.
Thanks in advance!!
So here's my spreadsheet:
Generator BtS.xls | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | J | K | L | M | |||
2 | ParanormalStudies | PhysicalSkills | RogueSkills | ScienceSkills | TechnicalSkills | ||
3 | Astrology | HandtoHand:Untrained | Cardsharp | Anthropology | AppraiseAntiques | ||
4 | Lore:Aliens&UFOlogy | HandtoHand:Basic | ComputerHacking | Archaeology | ArtificialIntelligence | ||
5 | Lore:AmericanIndians | HandtoHand:Expert | Concealment | ArtificialIntelligence | BreedDogs | ||
6 | Lore:Cattle&Animals | HandtoHand:MartialArts | FindContraband | Astronomy&Navigation | Business&Finance | ||
7 | Lore:Cults&Sects | HandtoHand:Assassin | Gambling(Standard) | Astrophysics | ComputerOperation | ||
8 | Lore:Demons&Monsters | HandtoHand:Commando | Gambling(DirtyTricks) | Biology | ComputerProgramming | ||
9 | Lore:Entities&Ghosts | Acrobatics | IDUndercoverAgent | Botony | Excavation | ||
10 | Lore:Faeries&CreaturesofMagic | AerobicAthletics | ImitateVoice&Sounds | Chemistry | Firefighting | ||
11 | Lore:Geomancy&LeyLines | Athletics(General) | Palming | Chemistry:Analytical | Gemology | ||
12 | Lore:Magic | BodyBuilding&WeightLifting | PickLocksorPickPockets | Chemistry:Pharmaceutical | GeneralRepair&Maintenance | ||
13 | Lore:MagicArcane | Boxing | Prowl | Genetics | History | ||
14 | Lore:Mythology | Climb | Roadwise | Mathematics:Basic | Jury-Rig | ||
15 | Lore:Paranormal&Psionics | Fencing | Safe-Cracking | Mathematics:Advanced | Law(General) | ||
16 | Lore:Religion | ForcedMarch | Seduction | Parapsychology | LeatherWorking | ||
17 | Lore:Superstitions | Gymnastics | Streetwise | Psychology | Masonry | ||
18 | Streetwise:Weird | Juggling | Tailing | Zoology | Meditation | ||
19 | KickBoxing | Mining | |||||
20 | Outdoorsmanship | Navigation | |||||
21 | PhysicalLabour | Philosophy | |||||
22 | Prowl | Photography | |||||
23 | Running | RogueSkills | Prospecting | ||||
24 | Swim | Recycling | |||||
25 | SCUBA | Research | |||||
26 | Wrestling | RopeWorks | |||||
27 | Salvage | ||||||
28 | TechnicalWriting | ||||||
29 | Ventriloquism | ||||||
30 | Whittling&Sculpting | ||||||
data |
Just to clarify, the words "Rogue Skills" in cell k23 is actually a selection from a Validation List which includes all those Bold titles (Paranormal Studies, Physical Skills on over to Transportation Skills). And also, while this EXAMPLE is all taking place on the worksheet "data!", I actually want these Validation Lists and Column Lists to appear on the worksheet "skills!"
I would like to know:
1) How can I make a choice from my Validation List ("Rogue Skills") and ALL the skills underneath (from "Cardsharp" down to "Tailing") appear in cells L23 down to L38?
2) How can I make Excel randomly choose "Pick Locks" or "Pick Pockets"?
3) How can the next Validation List box wisely appear immediately under and to the left (K39 or K40 if I want some whitespace) of all those skills so that I can repeat what I did for question 1 over and over again?
4) If my next Validation List choice is Physical Skills, there will be an unwanted duplication of the skill "Prowl". How can I weed out duplicates?
5) And rather than having all those "Hand to Hand:" skills in one cell (like "Pick Locks" and "Pick Pockets" were necessarily arranged) to choose between, how can I make Excel choose one "Hand to Hand:" skill randomly? So that this skill list will extend from cells L38 down to L56 (assuming no whitespace, the skill "Prowl" was omitted and one "Hand to Hand:" was randomly chosen).
Answers to these questions will keep me going for weeks and weeks and weeks..... because I have buckets of data that need to follow the same principle except sometimes my choice won't be from a Validation List, but a Checkbox or Optionbox or simply a Named Range typed into a cell.
Thanks in advance!!