I'm not sure what you'd call it, but is it possible to do this?

[nut_mom]

I'll try to make this make as much sense as possible...

Okay, so I receive orders from customers - each order includes all o
the items they ordered (therefore each order includes multiple ite
numbers) - I then use Excel to tally up all of the orders.

There are two different things I need:

1 - How can I, after typing all of the orders into Excel, count up ho
many of each item needs to be ordered (without scrolling down an
counting every time that item number appears...as I have to do now)?

2 - When I type an item number, I'd like the description of the item t
automatically pop up into the column next to it. Is it possible to sav
a list of item numbers with their description so that can happen?


Any help would be much appreciated

 

[Chip Pearson]

For number 1, you should look into using a pivot table. For
number 2, have a look at the VLOOKUP function.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
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Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


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[Peo Sjoblom]

You can put a table with the order numbers in the leftmost column and their
descriptions in the next to the right, pout it in another sheet or off the
view, then use a vlookup formula like

=IF(B2="","",VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet2!A2:B500,2,0))

where B2 would be a cell where you type in the order number and sheet2
A2:B500 the table with the numbers and their descriptions

see help for VLOOKUP

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Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
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[Bearacade]

I am not sure how your invoices are set up, so the first question is
little bit hard to answer. Perhaps a sum or sumif command?

for the second one, you can set up a table and do a vlookup