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    Need to be able to change contents of a dropdown based on selection in another dd

    I have a bid sheet that I am trying to autofill with various dropdowns to make filling them out more streamlined for my PMs. We have about ten different clients that we do bids for, so I need them to be able to point and click as much as they can.

    Attached is a sample workbook. Sheet 1 is the bid sheet, sheet 2 and 3 are Client sheets with line item data. What I need is for the A column on the bid sheet to populate a drop down with the appropriate line items pulled from the Client sheet based on what client name is selected in B14. If Client 1 is selected in B14, I need column A to have the list of their line items available for selection. If Client 2 is selected, I need THEIR list in column A. I cannot for the life of me make this happen. I've tried vlookup and Index/match but this seems to be a bit over my head. TIA.
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    Re: Need to be able to change contents of a dropdown based on selection in another dd

    This is how I would do it. It only requires a single Named Range called ClientNames which I've created on the new sheet called LISTS. As you add sheets for clients, add another column to the LISTS and copy the first two formulas over. Edit the formula in the 3rd column to match the name of the Table on the new sheet, then copy down.

    The formulas create an easy to reference list for you.

    Then we have a formula on the BID_SHEET in A17 for the data validation.
    =OFFSET(ClientNames,2,MATCH($B$14, ClientNames,0)-1, OFFSET(ClientNames, 1, MATCH($B$14, ClientNames, 0)-1, 1, 1), 1)

    We can even use the new ClientNames named range to feed the list in cell B14 as well.
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    Re: Need to be able to change contents of a dropdown based on selection in another dd

    Oh man this is EXACTLY what I was going for!!!!! Thank you so much. Now all I have to do is get the trade category and unit dropdowns going but those are super simple Named Ranges that don't change from client to client so that won't be hard. Thanks again, this is going to make everyone's lives so much easier.

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