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Validate Part Number in Cell
Hello,
I have a spreadsheet with cells B11 through B65 with a 4 digit part number. Example, 4112. If a user enters a part number in cells B72 through B150 but that part number is not a valid part found in cells B11 through B65 it will display Invalid Part in that field.
How can this be done?
Steph
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B72,$B$11:$C$65,2,FALSE),"Invalid Part")
This works in my spreadsheet. Unfortunately from your initial post i didn't understand that there are part descriptions in range C11:C65 which you want to retrieve.
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The display shown in the image was produced by conditional formatting.
In each case the typed number is still there but the number format shows the additional text.
The formula used to trigger the conditional format is
= COUNTIFS(validNumbers, currentCell)=0where 'currentCell' is a relative reference to the active cell and the number format is
"Invalid part" 0(the 0 may be omitted to hide the 4-digit code).
If the user-provided data is to be used elsewhere, the formula
= IF( COUNTIFS(validNumbers, userInput), userInput, NA() )will error where the codes are invalid.
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B72,$B$11:$B$65,1,FALSE),"Invalid Part")
It works in my spreadsheet if i enter this formula in cell C72 and copy it down to cell C150. An entry in cells B72:B150 either returns the item number or Invalid Part.
- This works however when its a valid part number it does not pull in the part number description in the corresponding cells. Cells C11 through C65. It just pulls in the part number now.
If I type in part number 4125 in cell B72 and hit enter, if its a valid part it will display the full part number description that is listed in cell C63 if not, "Invalid Part".=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B72,$B$11:$C$65,2,FALSE),"Invalid Part")
This works in my spreadsheet. Unfortunately from your initial post i didn't understand that there are part descriptions in range C11:C65 which you want to retrieve.
