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    Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    Hi everyone! I am posting this again because I posted it before, but didn't explain it very well and someone suggested I add a dummy worksheet along with it so here I am again!

    Okay, so the company I work for has just switched over to a new company with different policies and procedures. Our old company had global policies and procedures and this one does not, meaning that every different part requires different case of documentation. Ex: If you are buying from China and shipping to Mexico there are different documents than buying from China and shipping to US, whereas before it was all the same document just translated into different languages. That being said there are five questions that will need to be answered in order to find out what three documents will need to be used. The answers to the questions will be drop down selections, and text format. The results or answers I want them to populate (the documents) will be numeric values.

    Again I attached a dummy document, this is not how the format needs to be. Ex: if you think it's easier to list out all the documents and have a value saying yes or no next to it that is fine! Preferred being that they answer all the questions and it populates itself.

    Also one last thing: I am leaving this company next week but am trying to finish this up for them. Obviously I am willing to work with any solution but the easier it can be explained to the person that is taking over my position the better. Also I am pretty new to excel, so I am willing to learn anything but please explain it in layman's terms (as best as possible) haha. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! this is really appreciated(:
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    Re: Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    I don't think this is the best solution, but it might be the simplest. On the attached in sheet 2 I started a list for the first dropdown with country and document # than placed a formula in Sheet1 G11.
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    1N73LL1G3NC3 15 7H3 4B1L17Y 70 4D4P7 70 CH4NG3 - 573PH3N H4WK1NG
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    Re: Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    Sounds like on sheet2 you would have a list of countries or combinations of countries in col A with disclousure numbers in B and then you could do a VLOOKUP. Similar tables for other types of documents you would need.
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    Re: Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    Hello,

    First of all thank you for your help! I guess I did a bad job explaining once again, but the three number values I would populate in the end are based of the answers to all five questions. So I see what you did there with the second sheet, but the first questions answer does not determine the # value, the answers to 1-5 does. Please let me know if you need any further explanation!

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    Re: Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    It's impossible to give you a formula without knowing how the different questions interact with each other and how that results in a particular document being used or not used.

    There's probably an easeir way but on sheet 2, you'd need to give every combination of answers on a different line with the resulting Non-disclsure, Type of and Contract. Then you could do a VLOOKUP from that.
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    Answers Non-Disclosure Type of ___ Contract type
    China_US_FCATRL_2_1 2222222 930940392 123909090
    US_US_FCATRL_2_1 2222222 930940392 777777777
    Turkey_US_FCATRL_2_1 333333333 930940392 123909090
    Etc.

    Calling the table Table1,
    VLOOKUP(Answer1&"_"&Answer2&"_"&Answer3&"_"&Answer4&"_"&Answer5, Table1, 2, FALSE)

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    Re: Populating # values based on multiple text answers

    In your example there are 2250 possible combinations (5 * 5 * 3 * 5 * 6 )

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