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Does anyone know how to make a drop down menu auto fill other cells. Ie if cell A1 = David A4-A6 would automatically fill in contact info for that person

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Posted on Mar 3, 2021 7:19 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2021 8:31 PM

In general it sounds as if you need to do what's called a "lookup." Based on what you enter in A1 you look up the information for A4:A6 from another table. One way is to use the XLOOKUP function, something like this:




Formula in A4: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::B,"Not found")

Formula in A5: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::C,"Not found")

Formula in A6: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::D,"Not found")


Substitute ; for , in the formulas if your regions uses , as a decimal separator.


More on XLOOKUP here.




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Mar 3, 2021 8:31 PM in response to Franchuk3581

In general it sounds as if you need to do what's called a "lookup." Based on what you enter in A1 you look up the information for A4:A6 from another table. One way is to use the XLOOKUP function, something like this:




Formula in A4: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::B,"Not found")

Formula in A5: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::C,"Not found")

Formula in A6: =XLOOKUP(A$1,Info::$A,Info::D,"Not found")


Substitute ; for , in the formulas if your regions uses , as a decimal separator.


More on XLOOKUP here.




SG

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Mar 4, 2021 12:45 PM in response to SGIII

Maybe you can help me with another Salutions

example

if B4 is a drop down menu with a list of steaks

and B5 is a quantity

and B6 is a total weight

how can I select a steak from the drop down then type a quantity in the B5 cell and have it populate a total weight in B6

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