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Autofill Capabilities based off of Dropdown selections?

When selecting from a dropdown menu, can you build corresponding autofill capabilities into the next cell? I have a dropdown list of classifications that correspond to a weighting system. I'd like to be able to select a specific classification and have the following weight cell autopopulate. Is that possible through a formula or any other option that I'm missing?

 

Thank you!

 

Comments

  • Maybe a solution with a formula would work?

     

    Heres an example I cooked up:

     

    Num is an Auto Number column (This column could be hidden later)

    Weight is a dropdown column

    Formula is a Text/Number column with the result

     

    Unfortunately your number would still increment for every order

    Example.PNG

  • JamesR
    JamesR ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    Create a hidden area either at the top of the Sheet or to the rigjt of the data.  Create a data set with all the categorys and subsiquent code.

    Use the Lookup Formulae to look up the value and return the desired code.

     

    James

  • Somewhere in there yesterday I thought I read autonumber, but it appears not. My apologies!

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