Is there an easy function for basically filling in a series of cells from lists in a separate worksheet based on an initial choice from an initial drop-down list?
I’ve seen vlookup but is seems rather too complicated for my needs.
thanks/ aP

I think VLOOKUP is the simple function. What do you think is too complicated about it?

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I’ll do it the long and complicated way instead, its a spreadsheet sent to me by a public organisation that could have been made easy, its a time charge job, I’ll just bill more.

If you can give any sort of example (use dummy data or something) someone may be able to help. VLOOKUP is very handy and simple once you have used it once. Of course it may not suit what you want to do on this occasion

Basically I have a series of lists of things in a worksheet (say call it DROPDOWN), and a main sheet (SHEET).
There are a series of linked lists, none of the DROPDOWN lists are linked to the SHEET.
So as an example
Colour Colour description
R Red
O Orange
Y Yellow
G Green
etc…
I have to select each of them individually currently, which is a ball-ache. I’d like to be able to choose R, and the Red to populate the cell next door automatically, if nothing else it reduces mistakes, and ball-ache…