Display data from data table into another sheet/layout without long spaghetti formulas

Описание: 1. Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)

This is a worksheet event — it runs automatically every time the user selects a different cell on this sheet.
Target represents the cell (or range) the user just clicked.
You don’t need to call this macro manually — Excel fires it for you whenever selection changes.

2. Dim ws As Worksheet, licence_plate As String, Make As Variant, Model As Variant, Year As Variant

Declares variables:

ws: will later hold a reference to the data sheet.
licence_plate: stores the selected cell’s value (converted to text).
Make, Model, and Year: store lookup results from the “Data” sheet.
They’re declared as Variant because VLOOKUP can return either text or an error.

3. If Intersect(Target, Me.Range("B2:T52")) Is Nothing Then

Checks where the user clicked.
If they clicked outside the car grid (B2:T52), the macro shouldn’t do anything.

4. Me.Range("V4").Value = ""

Clears the display cell V4 whenever the user clicks outside the grid.
Keeps the interface clean — no leftover info from the last selection.

5. Exit Sub

Stops the macro immediately — prevents the rest of the code from running when selection is irrelevant.

6. licence_plate = CStr(Target.Value)

Stores the clicked cell’s value as a string (important because numeric IDs could otherwise misbehave in lookups).

7. If licence_plate = "" Then Me.Range("V4").Value = "": Exit Sub

If the clicked cell is empty — again, just clear the display cell and stop.
Avoids triggering lookups for blanks.

8. Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Data")

Points ws to the “Data” sheet — so you can easily call lookups from it without hardcoding the sheet name every time.

🔹 Make = Application.VLookup(licence_plate, ws.Range("C:L"), 2, False)
🔹 Model = Application.VLookup(licence_plate, ws.Range("C:L"), 3, False)
🔹 Year = Application.VLookup(licence_plate, ws.Range("C:L"), 4, False)

These three lines search column C on the Data sheet for the licence plate and return values from columns D, E, and F respectively.
We're effectively doing:

“Find this licence plate in column C, and give me Make, Model, and Year.”

The False at the end forces an exact match — no partials, no guessing.

9. If Not IsError(Make) Then

If the lookup succeeds (no error), display the data.
If it fails (not found), show “no match found”.

10. Me.Range("V4").Value = licence_plate & " - " & Make & " " & Model & ", " & Year

Builds a neat, human-readable output string in V4, e.g.

“28-GBS-4 – BMW 320i, 2019”

11. Else

Handles the “not found” case.

12. Me.Range("V4").Value = licence_plate & " - no match found"

If the car isn’t in the data sheet, give feedback instead of leaving the user wondering.

13. End If / End Sub

Cleanly close the conditional and procedure.

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