Populating cells with data from another spreadsheet after just keying in a few letters

Posted by Wendy Griffin on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Wendy Griffin
Published on 2011-11-18T16:41:56Z Indexed on 2011/11/18 17:54 UTC
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I have 1 workbook with 2 spreadsheets. Spreadsheet 2 column A contains a long list of company names, Columns B - H contain critical information about the company.

Spreadsheet 1 contains all of the columns as Spreadsheet 2 plus some other columns. What I'm trying to achieve is that when you start to type in the first 3 characters of a company name on Spreadsheet 1 it would then have a drop down of the companies (as listed on Spreadsheet 2) that share the first 3-5 letters and you would select one. Upon selecting a company name all of the corresponding company information would populate in the other columns on spreadsheet 1 automatically. This is to avoid copying a row from Spreadsheet 2 and pasting it in Spreadsheet 1.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

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