I am attempting to have a worksheet field within Excel 2003 autofill a column
as follows:

If B15 = 120354 then C15 will equal the description defined on catalog
worksheet for item 120354. I tried building an 'IF' clause but it just pulls
the first row of the range I indicate. It does give a literal value to field
B15.

Thanks for any assistance.
Natalie

Why not use VLOOKUP to return the description of the item from the catalog
sheet?
For example, if the item & description are listed in columns A & B on the
catalog sheet, your cell C15 (on the other sheet) could habe the formula:

=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(B15,Catalog!A:B,2,FALSE)),"",VLOOKUP(B15,Catalog!A:B,2,FALSE))

Then copy the formula to as many rows as needed.

Hope this helps,

Hutch

"Natalie" wrote:

> I am attempting to have a worksheet field within Excel 2003 autofill a column
> as follows:
>
> If B15 = 120354 then C15 will equal the description defined on catalog
> worksheet for item 120354. I tried building an 'IF' clause but it just pulls
> the first row of the range I indicate. It does give a literal value to field
> B15.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
> Natalie

thanks so much for the help - that did just what I needed.

Natalie

"Tom Hutchins" wrote:

> Why not use VLOOKUP to return the description of the item from the catalog
> sheet?
> For example, if the item & description are listed in columns A & B on the
> catalog sheet, your cell C15 (on the other sheet) could habe the formula:
>
> =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(B15,Catalog!A:B,2,FALSE)),"",VLOOKUP(B15,Catalog!A:B,2,FALSE))
>
> Then copy the formula to as many rows as needed.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Hutch
>
> "Natalie" wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to have a worksheet field within Excel 2003 autofill a column
> > as follows:
> >
> > If B15 = 120354 then C15 will equal the description defined on catalog
> > worksheet for item 120354. I tried building an 'IF' clause but it just pulls
> > the first row of the range I indicate. It does give a literal value to field
> > B15.
> >
> > Thanks for any assistance.
> > Natalie