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    Automatically Update Rows in Table

    Hello,

    I'm not sure if this is possible in Excel, but I thought someone here might know. I want to create an excel table/database and have the rows update based on changes to a list. For example...

    Here is a list of employees:
    Bob
    Jim
    Steve

    Here is a list of projects:
    Project1
    Project2

    And here's the relevant table I'd manually input the hours worked).
    Project  | Employee | Hours Worked
    Project1 | Bob      | 
    Project1 | Jim      | 
    Project1 | Steve    | 
    Project2 | Bob      | 
    Project2 | Jim      |
    Project2 | Steve    |
    What I'd want to do is make is so that if I changed the list of employees (say we just hired Susie) the table would automatically add two new rows... a "Project 1 | Susie" row and a "Project 2 | Susie" row. Is it possible to have the table automatically add the new rows in some way? This is a very simplified example, but the actual sheet I'm working with has dozens of employees and projects, so the automation is somewhat important.

    I hope I'm making sense... if not, I'll try to clarify.

    Thank you in advance for your time.
    Last edited by komgol; 06-08-2010 at 12:11 PM.

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    Re: Automatically Update Rows in Table

    Komgol

    You say this is a manually inputted worksheet at present?

    I hope you don't mind me making the following observations; There are multiple employees, multiple projects and duplication on who works on what...?

    Can I suggest you simply create;

    Column A or Row A - Employees
    Row A or Column A - Projects or names

    What would determine which way around I would choose would depend on the higher variance of either projects or employees.

    It strikes me that would be a lot simpler. If you then need further help get back to me and the data will be in a much more maneagable format.

    I've attached a very simple example.

    opsman
    p.s. Apologies I didn't actually answer your question. Answer is probably yes using VBA and forms you could do it, but to keep things simple I would recommend my initial course of action first.
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    Last edited by opsman; 06-08-2010 at 05:44 PM.

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