Variable drop down (not named range)

alfordtp

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I have read many of the threads that talk about setting up named ranges. That will not be an efficient way to do it for me.

I have a table with many combinations and I can see what I want when I auto-filter through the table column by column. I would rather not look at all the data as it filters. I would like to set the criteria that it is filtering by on the first page and each drop-down would be conditional. Like I said before, setting up named ranges would take too long and this is a dynamic table, so I would have to up the different ranges every time.

Is there any way to set it up like the following:

Sheet2, Row1 has all the fields that would do the filtering and below it, all the data to filter.
Can I copy Sheet2, Row1 to Sheet1 and filter from this page. Then, once filtered all the way down, cell C5 show a selected value from that combination?

Sorry if this is confusing. I am just trying to get it to where I dont see the table filtering, only the headers doing the filtering and then a value at the end.
 

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Advanced filter will not work...I would have to do that all the time, every time I update, and there are over 20,000 records. I would like it easier than that.
 
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can't you try a dynamic named range. if you send me a private message then i'll send you an article back explaining them.

Kaps
 
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