An Excel drop-down list is a great way to give the user an option to select from a pre-defined list.
It can be used while getting a user to fill a form, or while creating interactive Excel dashboards. It helps in data entry as you can limit the options that can be added to a cell. It also helps in avoiding misspelled words as the user can simply select from the drop down list in Excel.
Drop down lists are quite common on websites/apps and are very intuitive for the user.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an Excel drop down list (it only takes a few seconds to create one).
The video on Excel drop down list covers:
— Creating an Excel drop down list from source data in worksheet
— Creating an Excel drop down list by manually entering options/items
— Selecting all cells containing drop down lists
— Caution while copy pasting when there are drop down lists
— Using OFFSET Function to create an Excel drop down list
— Creating dynamic drop down list in Excel
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Format it as a table and you don’t need to add formula…
It becomes dynamic.
Nice!
Excel 365 is not letting me copy and paste the formula in the Data Validation dialogue box. Is it me doing something wrong or did Excel break this? I can paste it on other cells, so I know I've copied it correctly — and I was also able to type in the formula, but for more complex formulas that can be extremely tedious and error prone.
I need help. I volunteer for a non profit service dog training foundation and i need a grading spread sheet. What i would need is a cell that can be populated by a drop down that has multiple choices that can be pick to fill the cell with multiple answers. Say 30 choices that can be picked to fill one cell separated by just commas. I was told u need a formula that excel does not have a standard application for this.
I do enjoy ur tutorials I'm just not left brained enough to absorb it all.
Will the VBA for a multiple selection drop down list work if set inside a table with header row? It worked great in a plain worksheet, but when I created a table inside a sheet I can't make it work. Thank you!
Thankyou ,
Hi, I like your videos a lot. I would like to send you and excel file. In that file there is function about vlookup and drop down list somehow linked together in a way. Kindly show me how i can do that.
Thank you, and hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks , very useful!
I use this =offset(A2,0,0,countif(A:A,"<>")) for entire column A. This works but not 100% satisfied because it includes blank space in combobox selection if there is a gap between.
I also tried A2:A from A2 to entire column A but didn't work.
Very good video. How would i apply this in a situation where the list is on the second sheet of the workbook?
Thanks for the information. Question: What if the items in the drop down list had corresponding information about them as well? For example, not only would I want the Item name, but I would also want their price or weight for example to populate a new sheet perhaps.
very GOOD video, easy to understand step by step wonderful
he sounds stupid
Awesome Video!
Very good video, I would recommend maybe a slightly slower pace. Some users will watch your video and try to duplicate on their Excel but the pace is a little fast.
Hi Sumit Sir, I want some solution from u if you can, I have a file contains design name and its photo, now I get list of design name and its stock from my ERP, now I want to put picture in front of stock qty of all stock item from my master file which contains design name and its picture, so please tell me how can i do this. I watched your video for vlookup picture but it work if I want only one name picture but I have list of so many name and want to put the picture in front of it from my master file.
sir ur vedios are so much to learn.plz suggest me the solutions asked last comment
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I have a product list drop down and id like to add a corresponding product description.
For example column a1 would have a drop down when you select apple a description is automatically filled into cell b1 that corresponds to the product.
Would you please be able to help?
Thanks.