Referencing Table Cells

**Nickolai** · 11-27-2014, 03:16 AM

So I'm making a workbook for a restaurant to calculate the ever-changing cost of food. On one sheet, inventory items are entered and the per oz cost is calculated in a table. I used a table so they can sort by provider, location, cost, etc. On another sheet I have the recipes with drop down boxes to select the inventory items and then input the amount of the item included. I need to have a cell that can reference the per oz cost of the item selected, multiply it by the amount and output the total cost. I don't know how to reference a cell that could be anywhere on the table since they change the sort every time. I feel like the R1C1 method comes into play, but I don't know how to write a formula that can read a cell with any one of 500 possible values. Any suggestions or comments will be much appreciated. Thank you.

**Glenn Kennedy** · 11-27-2014, 03:56 AM

Sounds like INDEX-Match, or similar, will do the job. But.

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**Nickolai** · 12-01-2014, 01:25 PM

Thank you for the reply. Sorry for the delay, I've been sick for awhile. Attached is a sample spreadsheet showing what I'd like done. The drop down box for the ingredient list on the "recipes" sheet references the first column of the "ingredients" sheet. Again, all help is appreciated.

Sample.xlsx