Royally Confused!!

[Confused Man]

Hello all...
here is my situation:
On Sheet2 of my workbook I have a set of data that starts at B3:B9. Next to
column "B" I have column "C-F" with data that corresponds to each row of
"B".
For example:

B2=Stock C-F2=price,PE, etc...

I have highlighted the stocks listed in column "B" and defined a name for
them.

On Sheet1 I have gone through the validation and set up the pull down menu
where I can select the stock from Sheet2.

But my question is how can I set it up so that when I choose the a stock
from the pull down list in the adjacent columns it returns the values from
columns C-F?

I know this is a round about way to ask a question, I just want to provide
as much information as possible.

Thank you all so much,
Confused Man

 

[Alex Delamain]

Try using VLOOKUP

=vlookup(your pull down cell here,data table on sheet2,column
number,false)

you will need to sort your data on sheet 2 into ascending order of
column B

Hope this helps

 

[Confused Man]

Thank you guys that worked great... now a couple more questions if you don't
mind... right now if nothing is chosen in the pulldown list the Vlookup
returns #N/A. How can I get these cells to remain blank unless something is
chosen from the list?

also, one of the Vlookup cells I want to multiply a manually entered value
but if I don't enter a value I want it to ignore that operation and just
return the value from the original dataset.

For example. Vlookup(B2,datatable,columns) should return a value of 1. but
it's looking at the cell I want to multiply and returning a 0, but I want it
to ignore the cell if it's blank. I'm pretty sure I need to use an IF
statement, but I'm not sure how to go about that.

Thank you all so very much for all your excellent help,
Confused Man