Here's a link to a Microsoft Access application for BOMs. You may find doing
this in a database is much more manageable than in a spreadsheet.
http://www.mvps.org/access/downloads/bom.zip
There are also plenty of discussions on the SQL Server newsgroups about bill
of materials
On 26 Feb, 15:15, Duke Carey <DukeCa...@discussions.microsoft.com>
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> Here's a link to a Microsoft Access application for BOMs. You may find doing
> this in a database is much more manageable than in a spreadsheet.
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I dont have Access am afraid
If you're set on using Excel, you can use a combination of COUNTIF (to count
how many children there are per item) , MATCH, and OFFSET to populate your
lists. If you have some more specifics on cell references of ranges where
your data is located I could give yuo a specific example.
> Here's a link to a Microsoft Access application for BOMs. You may find doing
> this in a database is much more manageable than in a spreadsheet.
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> > I know this is probably simple but am stuck
sabbathnut - 27 Feb 2007 10:19 GMT
On 26 Feb, 16:20, Dave Breitenbach
<DaveBreitenb...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> If you're set on using Excel, you can use a combination of COUNTIF (to count
> how many children there are per item) , MATCH, and OFFSET to populate your
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in worksheet BOM A1 holds the parent code A2 holds the child
in ORDERS sheet a1 holds the parent code i require a vlookup in c1 e1
g1 i1 k1 etc...but each vlookup knows not to display a child code if
its displayed in the previous cells