Select case or If then

[Guest]

I develop electronic form templates in Word, however, I currently have the
opportunity to develop a shipping document in Excel. I want to insert a
dropdown in cell A1 that contains a single list of the companys plants. Once
the plant has been selected from the dropdown, the appropriate address will
proliferate cell A2. I do this using SelectCase in Word but I notice that
the construction of the code is different in Excel. I see that in Excel the
items that populate the code need to be entered into a cell range on the
spreadsheet, workbook, or external document. I also note that the Select
case in Excel seems to ask for a 'numeric' value and the anticipated returned
numeric value.....is there a counterpart I can use in Excel to get my desired
results? Best regards - Lenny

 

[Guest]

Select Case does not require a numeric value. It is native to VBA which is
the same in Excel and Word.

You can have a dropdown without using a macro. See Data=>Validation using
the List Option.

Greater information is at Debra Dalgleish's site:

Debra Dalgleish
http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

Having a database of values on another sheet, possibly hidden will provide
the ability to lookup the address of the selected value and display it below
the dropdown

=if(A1<>"",Vlookup(A1,sheet2!A:F,2,False),"")

as an example.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Take a look at LOOKUP() and VLOOKUP() in XL Help. Both operate with text
values as well as numeric.

With either, there's no need to enter the possible selections in a range
of cells - you could enter them directly in the function as an array.
Entering them in a range of cells *does* make for easier maintenance,
however, when locations are added or removed.

 

[Zone]

It's not necessary to have it in a cell, and it's not necessary that it be
numeric.
For instance:

Sub Testy()
a = "something"
Select Case a
Case Is = "something"
MsgBox "It's something!"
Case Is = "something else"
MsgBox "It's something else!"
Case Else
MsgBox "it's neither one"
End Select
End Sub