Select from Pop-Up Menu return Data

Question

I am trying to build a nutritional information table. Therefore I have Table 1 Sheet 1. The Columns A, B, C, and D are titled Food, Calorie, Carbohydrate, and Protein respectively. I have populated 10 rows of information (i.e. Chicken, 300, 0, 36).
What I want to be able to do is create another table, in this case Table 2, where I build my diet (based on my workouts) from the information listed in Table 1. For example, let's say in Table 2 I want to create Cells A1:A10 as Pop-Up Menus.
When I go to build my diet in Table 2, I would like my diet to consist of 5 food items. Therefore I select Cell A1:A5 in Table 2 which are Pop-Up Menus. All my options are linked to the Food Column in Table 1. After selecting the proper item the respective nutritional information will populate in the following columns.
Table 1
A1 B1 C1 D1 (Food, Calories, Carbohydrates, Protein)
w x y z
Table 2
A1 B1 C1 D1 (Food, Calories, Carbohydrates, Protein)
(A1 is a Pop-Up Menu linked to Table 1 Column A1)
Once I select w in Table 2 A1, Cell B1, C1, D1 will fill in automatically with the information from Table 1.
I hope I explained that clearly enough. If Numbers cannot do this, what do you recommend?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Message was edited by: Michael710
Message was edited by: Michael710

Answer 1

Yes, your formula for column C of table 2 would look something like the one below. The particular row does not matter, you can put this in all of your rows in column C. The first parameter (A) refers to the cell in column A that is in the same row as the formula. The second parameter (Table 1::A) refers to the entire A column of Table 1 (except for headers and footers). And the third (Table 1::C) refers to the entire column C of Table 1. The formula will look in Table 1::A for the value that matches Table 2::A and will return the corresponding value found in Table 1::C.
=LOOKUP(A,Table1::A,Table1::C)