Database Display Formula

[jmont18]

Hey everyone,

I am trying to create a formula where I can select a title from a drop down list in Excel and have the attached term display in an adjacent cell. I already have a drop down list created using 105 terms. There are 5 terms matched to a group of terms in the dropdown menu. They are shown below. The bold terms are the term that I need to be displayed if one of its group members is picked. Thank You!

Housing

Custom Homes
Sale/Spec Homes

General_Building

Aircraft Sales/Service
Airline Terminal
Animal/Plant/Fish Facility
Apartments/Condominiums 1-3 Stories
Apartments/Condominiums 4+ Stories
Athletic Facility
Bank
Beach/Marina Facility
Bowling Alley
Capitol/Courthouse/City Hall
Casino
Clinic/Medical Office
College/University
Communication Building
Covention & Exhibition Center
Dormitory
Elderly/Assisted Living
Fire/Police Station
Food/Beverage Service
Freight Terminal
Funeral/Interment Facility
Gas/Chemical Plant
Hospital
Hotel/Motel
Indoor Arena
Kindergarten
Library
Manufacturing Building
Middle/Senior High School
Military Facility
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Recreational
Museum
Nursing/Convalescent Center
Office
Parking Garage
Passenger Terminal
Post Office
Pre-School
Primary School
Prison/Jail
Refinery
Regional Shopping Center
Retail(Other)
Shopping Center
Social Club
Space Facility
Stadium
Supermarket
Swimming Pool
Testing/Research/Development Lab
Theater/Auditorium
Vehicle Sales/Service
Vocational School
Warehouse
Warehouse (Refridgerated)
Worship Facility

Utilities

Air Pollution Control
Cogeneration Plant
Dry Waste Treatment Plant
Electric Substation
Guidance Detection Tracking System
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Heating/Cooling Plant
Hydroelectric Plant
Industrial Waste Disposal
Nuclear Power Plant
Power Plant (Other)
Sewage Treatment Plant
Tower/Signal System
Water Treatment Plant

Engineering

Airport Lighting
Athletic Lighting
Bridge
Communication Lines
Dock/Pier
Dredging
Flood Control


Fuel/Chemical Line
Highway Signs/Guardrails
Hydroelectric
Landscaping
Mobile Home Park
Park/Playground
Paving
Pedestrian Tunnel
Power Lines
Railroad
Roadway Lighting
Runway/Taxiway
Sanitary Sewer
Shoreline Maintenance
Sidewalk/Parking Lot
Site Development
Storage Tank(Other)
Storm Sewer
Utility Tunnel
Vehicle Tunnel
Water Line
Water Supply
Water Tank

Unclassified

Unclassified

[gebobs]

So if Airport Lighting is selected from the drop down, you want Engineering displayed in an adjacent cell?

If so, that can be done by putting the category next to each subcategory (Engineering to the right of Airport lighting, etc.) and just do a vlookup.

You might want to consider, nested dropdowns in which case you would select one of the 5 categories (Housing, Gen'l Building, etc.) which would then populate another dropdown with the subcategories for that category.

You can read how to do that here. I have attached an example using your data.