Autofilling cells with data from another sheet (2002 SP2)

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I have a workbook with two sheets. Sheet 1 contains data in rows. Sheet 2 displays a subset of the data in sheet 1 (along with other stuff manually entered, plus stuff from elsewhere).

What I want is to enter a reference to the contents of cell x,y in sheet 1 into a cell in sheet 2 (i.e. =sheet1!x,y), and have the next three cells to the right in sheet 2 auto-fill with the contents of three other (always the same offset to the right) cells in the same row in sheet 1.

Should be simple, probably is, but I can’t figure it out

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One way is to use formulas like this in, say. cell D3

=IF(A3=””, “”, VLOOKUP(A3, Sheet1!$A$1:$H$100, 4, FALSE))

This formula says: look up the value from the cell in column A in the same row (if not empty), in first column of the range A1:H100 in Sheet1, and return the corresponding value from the 4th column.

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Hans, that does it exactly as I want – thanks very much indeed.

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Be aware that, for Hans’ formula to work, the values in column A must be unique. If there are duplicate values, Hans’ formula will always find and return the first one.

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OK, I started using this and it works great. However…as I create versions of this workbook, I find that the references to Sheet1 remain pointing to the original workbook (V10 for the sake of argument) as opposed to the current one (say V12). How do I make the sheet reference keep pointing to sheet1 in the current workbook?

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It depends on the way you create a new version. If you duplicate the workbook (the .xls file), or use File | Save As to create a copy, or if you copy both worksheets to a new workbook (in one go), the formulas should refer to Sheet1 in the current workbook. However, if you copy the worksheet with the formulas to a new workbook by itself, without copying Sheet1 at the same time, the formulas will refer to Sheet1 in the original workbook.
If this doesn’t solve your problem, please post back.

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You could use (if you start in A1 on Sheet2):

=OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,ROW()-1,COLUMN()-1)

Adjust the “1” in the rows and columns to match the startting row and column of the formula.

Steve

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Steve, thanks. Hans’ solution works better for my particular needs, but I appreciate your help.

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