which function will work?

[bestmom]

I haven't done any of this for 15 years and in those days I was working with dare I say 123! So I really would appreciate some help to refresh my memory. I have a database of customers in a spreadsheet. I also have a database of work carried out to those customers engines in another spreadsheet. I want to be able to click on a customer name in one spreadsheet and open up the data relating to that customer's work history. I'm sure I've done something similar before, but can't remember how to get started. I seem to think the lookup function would do it, but cannot see how, from the onscreen help

If anyone could steer me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Maybe you could use VLOOKUP

=VLOOKUP(A1,Table,3,0)

where A1 would hold the name, Table would be the database with the leftmost
column
holding the names, 3 would be the column index counted from the left most
column which
would be the result.



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

I haven't done any of this for 15 years and in those days I was working

with dare I say 123! So I really would appreciate some help to refresh my
memory. I have a database of customers in a spreadsheet. I also have a
database of work carried out to those customers engines in another
spreadsheet. I want to be able to click on a customer name in one
spreadsheet and open up the data relating to that customer's work history.
I'm sure I've done something similar before, but can't remember how to get
started. I seem to think the lookup function would do it, but cannot see
how, from the onscreen help.