Auto-Populate Cells From Drop-Down Selection in Excel (3 steps)

How to automatically populate cells based on what's in another cell. This concept is used for all kinds of templates or fillable forms. In this example, I show you how to use VLOOKUP to populate customer data fields based on the customer name selected with a drop-down. With this, we're creating a semi-automatic order confirmation form🏆

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0:00 Auto-populate data based on drop-down selection
0:44 Insert drop-down list
1:25 Write lookup functions (e.g. VLOOKUP)
5:30 Remove errors to ensure it's easy to understand

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[anasresources]

Thank you so very much. Great video and very helpful for what I needed. 🙏

[ErnestoMarra-rlju]

Great instructional video; I appreciate your approach to teaching.

[theOGmb]

Exactly what I needed. Thanks for getting straight to the point and not milking time. Much appreciated!

[Mary.L-cjej]

Simple and easy to understand. Many thanks!

[BreannaMM]

Thank you so much for making this video! You just don't know how much you've helped me with a project I'm working on 🙂

[truewiking]

Super clear and very nicely explained, thank you very much

[orig.swordfishmixer]

OMG. this was the easiest video I've watched

[chrisbrandt]

Thank you for explain this so clearly! I will look at some of your other videos, and I have subscribed!

[one-N]

Thanks, Even the AI tools couldn't help. The simplest explained VLOOKUP ever. You saved me bro

[learningwithtwins]

Man, Man Man, i have been looking on how to do this, i have watched 100s of videos and finally i can across your's, its perfect easy to understand and it worked for me, thanks a lot

[shravanipoosarla]

Can you help me figure out how to automate the formula to apply for all the rows?

[ajmottola]

I ran across your video and it is GREAT. You explained it very simple and straight to the point. Howevery I have a issue with this solution. So I'll looking some more to see if I can find an answer to my Issue. Thanks Again

[budgiebreder]

This is so handy for what i wanna do!!! Thanks!

[FredaDeAguilera-uz]

This was so helpful. Mine keeps pulling wrong numbers from the list.

[liammurray]

Hi, this video is great, and I am doing something similar however my "customer name" which is "cables" to me has multiple tables for different types, then based on each table there is different sizes. Is there a way to select a certain table, then from there list only the sizes in that table and select which one?

[ling]

my excel file will be slow when opening if use so many formula, is that any way to solve the slowing of this?

[neutralsandhews]

Hi what if someone deletes the VLOOKUP formula? Like if someone starts filling the form by typing in the address cell first instead of customer name drop down, that would delete the formula. Is there a way to reject input where you have the VLOOKUP formula?

[andrewvoepel]

Say I want to have that formula carry down a table, what would I add into it? So instead of having just a single Customer Name cell I have Customer Name as a header and Customer Address as a header and every time I select Customer Name it will auto populate the Customer Address. Thank you!

[wertyghjkl-fcdx]

Any idea by chance why mine is returning a 0 instead?, for a moment had the same #N/A so I double checked just to make sure. Forgot the first argument but made a correction, still now listing below.

[michellethompson]

How do you do this when the cells are merged?