Building a Excel template with drop down that has the headers

I was recently given the following project to complete/learn work on. I have no clue how to approach it. I will past the email/needs below and I am happy interface with someone via or email if you need to see the file. any tips or where to start would be???!!!

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"The fields (cells) in Yellow are a list of options. What I need is to build an excel template that I can past in below the top line (row 2 down) and each column would have drop down to select which of those yellow cell choices EACH header cell would be. SO we would need a drop down list that had each of those yellow field header options and it would be in F1:??1 whatever width it is now + 20 more cells. It would default to blank option so if nothing picked there be be a blank header.

Basically I need to normalize MANY different data sheets to have consistent headers, and only way to do is to copy and paste in what the old is and then select the correct corresponding one from drop down list, then once all the field headers are selected using our naming system then the old header which would be in row 2 would be deleted and the entire thing saved to CSV for import into DB.

Ignore the green. Starting with F1 for the list of options, remember default it blank, and give all the options listed in yellow cels here. They should fill a ‘template’ from A1 to the width the yellow is now plus 20 more columns as since default is blank it does not matter how many.. rather it be enough"

Maybe it's my advancing 30+ years or receding hairline, but I'm not seeing green or yellow anywhere.

Are you able to attach an example file with before and after so we can get a better idea?

It sounds like you're consolidating data from multiple sources into a single worksheet with standardized column headers. Maybe just a series of VLOOKUPS to pull the data and align it as you need?

Sorry those are on the excel sheet that I need to create a this for. I can try to attach or paste it on to here some how. Where is the attachment function? Excuse my ignorance.

Copy ofstructure_CSV_Headers.xlsx

Here is the attachment that I will working on

Do you have any examples of source data?

It seems like it's a simple matter of transcribing the records from point A to point B.

I don't have any source data samples. What do you mean by Transcribing from point A to point B? What I am being asked in that msg that I sent is it a sort function?

It sounds like you're taking similar data from multiple sources that do not have matching headers, but do have matching fields, and it sounds like the message wants you to align each piece of data under new column headers.

So, source A might be Name, ID, hire date, Title. Source B might be Employee, Job Title, Employee #, Start Date. It sounds like data with similar fields that need to be pulled, consolidated to one source, and realigned to match up under the new headers.

This could be accomplished with VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH.

Ok I will try to attempt to try this

VLOOKUP is that a function or sort?

It's a function.

=VLOOKUP(lookup what, look where, return what column #, 0 for exact matches)

If you had A1= Bob, A2=Tom, B1 = 999, B2=59

Then if you put this formula in F25:

=VLOOKUP(A1,$A$1:$B$2,2,0) it would Look for Bob in the first column of A1:B2, and return the row's match for the 2nd column, which is 999.

Using this you can take a massive pile of data, pull an identifying column from it and plop it somewhere else, and then reference those values and pull corresponding row and columns from it's original source in any order or format you want.

It's a good way to make short work of reorganizing data.

Without a data sample, it's difficult to provide a more detailed analysis.