Honestly, don't do this - there is software out there at low cost that will do this far better than you can do it in Excel. I've just been through a process of reviewing it for a project at work and what you are trying to do is not simple, doing it in Excel will render it nigh on useless for getting any useful information out of. Will require you adding new forms for each type of new product you add, it will be extremely painful to maintain update and revise due to hard-coding everything and having multiple versions of the same workbook.
This type of project NEEDS a database (and even then it isn't easy), you can do it with a document orientated database or a relational one, but Excel simply is not cut out for the task. To give you a starter for 10, generally for something like this, it would contain multiple tables that look after each item (and this is grossly simplified to the extreme):
There is more IT asset tracking software out there than you can shake a stick at that will take care of this for you, my honest advice is spend a few quid and get it, I guarantee that it will save you more money in the long run than trying to do this yourself.
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