Question

I have a excel column as a dropdown list. What i want to achieve is the following:

When the user chooses a value from the dropdown list, it should populate the row with another set of values.

e.g. Cell A1 – user chooses fruit, cell A2,A3,A4 etc should be populated based upon a lookup list, this would result in:

A1 – Fruit, A2 – Apple, A3 – Banana, A4 – Orange

Another example

A1 – Car, A2 – BMW, A3 – Honda, A4 – Suzuki, A5 – Mercedes, A6 – Audi

The number of items in each differs.

Is this possible without VBA?

Answer 1

1. Use Data Validation on A1. See Debra’s site
2. Use a simple Index and Match in combo A2:A6 to return the values allocated to A1 by referencing your data range contain your categories and values