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    Quickest way to fill in information

    Morning all!

    I'm trying to find a quicker way to fill in a sheet I use in my daily tasks in work. It's pretty much the same stuff all the time and is pretty mundane, I'd like to speed things up a bit so that I can spend time on other things. At the moment I use drop down lists to choose the info for each field in the green section, and then I copy/paste the info from 'Our Note'. (I've added images of this with the simple formula I use now)

    I was wondering if it would be possible to use checkboxes instead of dropdown lists to fill the in the information? Or is there maybe another solution?

    Any advice would be much appreciated,

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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    you could use a form in vba.

    Is it always the same cells or how is the data organised?


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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    Not really sure how check boxes would help here?

    Can you upload a small (clean) sample workbook (not a pic) of what you are working with, and what your expected outcome would look like.
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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    Thanks for taking your time to look at this.

    The only things I want to apply this to are:

    Our alert:
    Using:
    Status is:
    ABC status is:

    Once the green cells are filled in we simply copy the info as it is from the bottom cell.

    It may not seem a lot, however we need to update these a lot, and it would help me work more efficiently if I could just update the info using one click.

    I've uploaded a copy of the file, as requested.

    Cheers! =)
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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    I have just tried a couple of list boxes to see if you like them. Click on the listbox and the yellow lines will update

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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    Tony H, you're a star! Thanks to you, this will make the most boring part of my day pass a lot quicker now...

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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    Cheers. I will presume you are ok to implement in your workbooks. If you need more info please ask.

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    Re: Quickest way to fill in information

    Yes I was able to copy the work you'd done and have added even more information to the sheet now as the process is so much quicker. Thanks again!

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