Logical Formula Help

Question

I have two tables set up. Table 1 has Name, Email address, phone number, and a checkbox all in different columns. Table 2 only has Name, Email and Phone. I want to set it up so that if I check the box in table 1, it places the Name from table 1 in the "Name" category on table 2. So far I have this formula set up in the Name column of table 2:
=IF ('YES/NO' NAME=TRUE, "Table 1 :: A2", "-")
And this works great... however the text that it puts in the name category of table 2 reads "Table 1 :: A2". In other words, I can't get it to copy the actual text that's in that cell into table two. Any ideas?

Answer 1

populationone wrote:
=IF ('YES/NO' NAME=TRUE, "Table 1 :: A2", "-")
And this works great...
As edited by Badunit, your formula will give the results shown in Table 2 below.
The formula used in Table 2::A2 is the one above, edited to fit the location of the checkbox and Name columns on Table 1.
=IF(Table 1::$A, Table 1 :: B, "-")
Fill right to column C, and down to the last row of Table 2.
You might prefer the results shown in Table 2-1, to the right of Table 2.
This requires an extra column (D, which may be hidden) on the main table, containing a formula which assigns a serial number to each row where the checkbox is checked, and the empty string to each unchecked row:
=IF(A,MAX($E$1:E1)+1,"")
Table 2-1 contains a single formula treating Table 1 as a Lookup table. It searches column D for the numbers generated by the previous formula, and returns the appropriate values from each row where a number is found.
=IF((ROW()-2)<MAX(Table 1::$E),LOOKUP(ROW()-1,Table 1 :: $E,Table 1 :: B),"")
Fill right to column C, and down to the last row of Table 2-1.
Regards,
Barry