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    Dropdown Boxes?

    Hi all,

    I am creating a database that lists our University's Professors' papers... they are categorized as "Working" or "Published". I have made the dropdown boxes with those options already. What I want is to have one sheet list all of the papers that were categorized as "Working" by means of the dropdown box and other sheet list all of the papers that were categorized as "Published", by means of the dropdown box. I'd like it to be "automated", where the paper automatically goes to either the working or published sheets as soon as I click one of those two categories in the dropdown box. Is this possible? Please advise.

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    Thanks in advance,
    Sarah

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    Re: Dropdown Boxes?

    Would it not be easier to add auto filters to the top of the first sheet so that you don't have two copies of each paper to work with and keep synchronized?

    In general, Excel is not well suited to act as a database as it is too easy to corrupt the data that you have spent so long compiling. A better option would be to use a database application such as MS Access which you probably have as part of Office.
    Martin

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    Re: Dropdown Boxes?

    mrice has a good point. See attached :

    Once sorted as desired, you can print what you see, not what you don't see, if you need a hard copy, etc.
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