Pop up messages

[Manos]

Dear all,

There is anyway that i can create in the excel workbook to create a message
that will pop up automatically?

For example all the sheets include information of finance.
I want to pop up to a message to the user when there is a specific period of
time. In the cover sheet there is the month. So I want when he put March to
see a message that told him which sheets should be fill in.
There is anyway to do it with the help of comments or I have to use visual
basic?

Thanks in advance
Manos

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

You could use a formula in an adjacent cell. You would create a lookup
table that contains the appropriate information to display, then in an
adjacent cell, use vlookup to display the data found in the lookup table.

 

[Manos]

can you give an example of this formula you desribed?
TA

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

On Sheet1
assume January is in A1

On sheet2 you have a table like

A B
January sheet3, Sheet5, Sheet11
February Sheet4, Sheet4, Sheet20


in B1 on sheet1

=if(A1="","",Vlookup(A1,Sheet1!A1:B12,2,false)