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How to Create a Drop Down List in Excel (the Only Guide You Need)

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Last week we started to explore the capabilities of Excel Data Validation and learned how to based on a comma-separated list, range of cells or a named range. Today, we are going to investigate this feature in-depth and learn how to create cascading drop down lists that display choices depending on the value selected in first dropdown. To put it differently, we will make an Excel data validation list based on the value of another list. All you need is a few named ranges and the INDIRECT formula. This method works with all versions of Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and earlier. Type the entries for the drop-down lists. First off, type the entries you want to appear in the drop-down lists, each list in a separate column. For example, I'm creating a cascading dropdown of fruit exporters and column A of my source sheet Fruit includes the items of the first dropdown and 3 other columns list the items for the dependent dropdowns. Now you need to create names for your main list and for each of the dependent lists. Please pay attention that if your first row is sort of column header like you see in the screenshot above, you shall not include it in the named range. For the detailed step-by-step instructions please see. When done, you may want to press Ctrl+F3 to open the Name Manager window and check if all of the lists have correct names and references. Make the first main drop-down list. For the detailed steps, please see As the result, you will have a drop-down menu in your worksheet similar to this: 4. Create the dependent drop-down list. Select a cell s for your dependent drop-down menu and apply Excel Data Validation again as described in the previous step. Do you want to continue? Add a third dependent drop-down list optional If needed, you could add a 3 rd cascading drop-down list that depends either on the selection in the 2 nd drop-down menu or on the selections in the first two dropdowns. Set up a 3 rd dropdown that depends on the 2 nd list You can make the drop-down list of this type in the same fashion as we've just made a second dependent drop-down menu. Just remember the 2 important things discussed above, which are essential for the correct work of your cascading drop-down lists. For instance, if you want to display a list of regions in column C depending on which country is selected in column B, you create a list of regions for each country and name it after the country's name, exactly as the country appears in second dropdown lists. The displayed list of regions is unique for each country but it does not depend on the selection in the first drop-down list. For example, you have Mango, Oranges, etc. Then you create named ranges MangoIndia, MangoBrazil, OrangesIndia, OrangesBrazil, etc. These names should not contain underscores or any other additional characters. As the result, your 3 rd drop-down list will display the regions corresponding to the Fruit and Country selected in the first 2 drop-down lists. This is the easiest way to create cascading drop-down boxes in Excel. However, this method has a number of limitations. See how to create. The solution is to create a that does not have this restriction. To get over this limitation, try making a. How to create cascading drop-down lists with multi-word entries The INDIRECT formulas like we used in the example above can handle one-word items only. However, spaces are not allowed in Excel names, which is why this formula won't work with multi-word names. The solution is to use the INDIRECT function in combination with SUBSTITUTE like we did when creating a. Suppose you have Water melon among the products. In this case, you name a list of water melon exporters with one word without spaces - Watermelon. Your user has made the selections in all of the drop-down lists, then they changed their mind, went back to the first list, and chose another item. As the result, the 1 st and 2 nd selections are mismatched. To prevent this from happening, you may want to block any changes in the first drop-down list as soon as a selection is made in the second list. Now, if any item is selected in the 2 nd drop-down list, no choices will be available when the user clicks on the arrow next to the first list. Creating dynamic cascading drop-down lists in Excel The main advantage of a dynamic Excel dependent drop-down list is that you are free to edit the source lists and your drop-down boxes will get updated on the fly. Of course, creating dynamic dropdowns requires a bit more time and more complex formulas, but I believe this is a worthy investment because once set up, such drop-down menus are real pleasure to work with. As with almost anything in Excel, you can achieve the same result in several ways. Okay, enough theory, let's get into practice. Organize your source data in a table. As usual, the first thing for you to do is to write down all the choices for your drop-down lists in a worksheet. This time, you will have to employ Excel tables to store the source data. Let me remind you that tables were introduced in Excel 2007, so you can use this method in modern versions of Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. Then switch to the Design tab and type a name of your table in the Table Name box. The most convenient and visual approach is to store the items for the first drop-down as table headers, and the items for the dependent dropdown as table data. Now that your source data is ready, it's time to set up named references that will dynamically retrieve the correct list from your table. Give it some meaningful and easy to remember name, e. Create a name for the cell containing the first drop-down list. I know that you don't have any dropdown yet : But you have to choose the cell to host your first dropdown and create a name for that cell now because you will need to include this name in the third name's reference. For example, my first drop-down box is reside in cell B1 on Sheet 2, so I create a name for it, something simple and self-explanatory like fruit: Tip. Use appropriate cell references to copy drop-down lists across the worksheet. Please be sure to read the following few paragraphs attentively, because this a very useful tip you that don't want to miss. Thanks a lot to for posting it! If you plan to copy your drop-down lists to other cells, then use mixed cell references when creating the name for the cell s with your first drop-down list. For the drop-downs to copy correctly to other columns i. As the result, B1's dependent drop down list will appear in cell B2; C1's dependent drop-down will display in C2, and so on. And if you plan to copy the dropdowns to other rows i. Create a name to retrieve the dependent menu's entries. Instead of setting up unique names for each of the dependent lists like we did in the , we are going to create one named formula that is not assigned to any particular cell or a range of cells. It will retrieve the correct list of entries for the second dropdown depending on which selection is made in the first drop-down list. The main benefit of using this formula is that you won't have to create new names as you add new entries to the first drop-down list - one named formula covers them all. If you are curious to learn the Index and Match functions in-depth, check out this tutorial:. Well, you have already done the major part of the work! Before getting to the final step, it may be a good idea to open the Name Manager Ctrl + F3 and verify the names and references: 3. Set up Excel Data Validation This is actually the easiest part. Your dynamic cascading drop-down menu is accomplished and will update automatically reflecting the changes you've made to the source table. The idea is to use 2 INDEX functions, where the first gets the upper-left cell and the second returns the lower-right cell of the range, or the OFFSET function with nested INDEX and COUNTA. The detailed steps follow below: 1. Create two additional names. Create the named reference for the dependent dropdown. The screenshot below shows the resulting dynamic drop-down menu in Excel where all blank lines are gone! When working with dynamic cascading drop down lists created with the above formulas, nothing prevents the user from changing the value in the first dropdown after making the selection in the second menu, as a result, the choices in the primary and secondary dropdowns may mismatch. You can block changes in the first box after a selection is made in the second one by using either VBA or complex formulas suggested in. This is how you create an Excel data validation list based on the values of another list. Thank you for reading! I have an issue regarding cascading excel dropdown lists that I'm looking forward to solve it as soon as possible... It is the following, I created a cascading dropdown list with several dependent entries. The thing is, I did not want a macro to clear contents, but one to update them, giving me a value instead of a blank cell. I would like to keep the dropdown option in the case I want to change my standard value. I need a formula or another method rather than indirect function. I followed the instructions in your example exactly for the dynamic cascading list. However when I select a fruit, no dropdown list appears for exporters. I click on the dropdown button and no dropdown list appears. I can't see anything that I've done wrong. I copied and pasted the name from name manager just to be sure I didn't type it wrong. Any suggestions of likely errors? Hi, If i want to create a sheet where i need to use the cascading dropdown in the consecutive rows, how can I implement it? For example, my first row i will select a value from dropdown list In cell A2 and dependent drop down is listed in B2. If I have implement the same in A3 and B3 how should I do it? Hi Svetlana, I'm trying to load a dropdown list based on doing a VLOOKUP in a data table. For example I load a data table with Orders and Items only 1 database call where an Order may have multiple Items. I want the user to enter an Order in a cell, then the corresponding Items are loaded into the dropdown list. Any help is appreciated! Svetlana - Thank you so much for this great tutorial! So when you're putting in the second drop down list, you're referencing the cell preceding it. I was referencing the list as it appeared in my reference tab. Hi have a hazard library with 500 hazard which I want to pick in a list and then I have contributing factors, controls, risks, description which I want to cascade I have only managed to be able to select the hazard and the second column contributoing factors in one cell I can't copy down and I cannot get it to copy across for the varying lists. Thanks Hi, Is there a way to reference a single primary drop down list.... The problem I run into is that a named range must be unique... I can only use the primary drop down name once only. Thanks Hi, this post is really awesome. I have 2 questions: 1. Is there a way to reference the INDIRECT formula to another workbook? This means all my data lists for the dropdown boxes are in a different workbook. For the dynamic dropdown with no blanks, is there a way to make it work when the cells are not truly blank? Meaning, they have formulas in them but do not return results so there's no display in the cell but it's not technically blank. I've been stuck with these for days. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Thanks for the usefull information. This explanation is awesome when using just one dependent dropdown. However, I'm working on a sheet with multiple dependent dropdown B1 is dependent on A1, C1 is dependent on A1 and B1, D1 is dependent on A1, B1 and C1,.... Any advice on how I should do this? I have successfully used the example for Dynamic dropdown menus thank you and I would like to know if is possible to adapt to fill-in a table with X-Y range of cells where the selection may applied for for any of these cells. I used an index-match function to create scores for each category based on what was chosen and then added all categories to receive a total score. I have two drop down lists in two different sheets of the same workbook. When I change the value in one dropdown, the other dropdown also should display the same value in the second sheet and when I change value in the second sheet the first one also should change to the same value. Both of the lists contain the same values. How can I do that? Would you help me please? VBA macro would be better for me. However, my drop down list for Country that is based on my Fruit selection is only returning the 1st result. In the example above it would only return Algeria instead of a drop down list of Algeria:Turkey. Hey All, I am tryig to develop 30 lines in which the user of the excel file can put only certain predefined values. I am much obliged or any help. Here it is the back ground I have a database in a worksheet where: - in column A is list of all producer; and - in column B next to the producer's name is included list with this producer's products Products are listed in column B and ocupy 3 to 7 cells from column B - 1 row contains always only 1 cell with value inside. Either in column A is the name of the producer, or in column B is a product, which is produced by this producer. By way of example: - Row 1 is for headings; - A2 - Producer1; - B3 - Product1, B4 - Product2, B5 - Product3 - A6 - Producer2; - B7 - ProductX, B8 - ProductY, B9 - ProductZ etc. Could someone please help? I want to extract the list data validation from the data as below. First lookup the PO and then create a list of corresponding distinct values. I am having trouble finding an error in a drop-down dependent worksheet I have created. My worksheet is formatted so that a user would select in column B one of 6 choices. This is working as intended. In the next column, C to the right , a drop-down box with three different choices dependent on the selection in column B should populate. I intended for this process to be copied exactly the same way in the rows beneath. The first cell available in my worksheet for the first choice is B8. The cell next to it with the drop-down dependent selection is C8. This is actually working. In the rows beneath this, column B is working correctly. The error I cant find is that, say you select a different choice in column B below B8, the dependent drop-down boxes in the rest of column C only show the choices for B8's options. Its as if the entire column C is only checking B8 for the dependent drop downs. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Hi, I need some help. Turkey is a common exporters, how could I do to add a third drop down list based on the exporters? Kindly assist Thank you Hi Natalia, I understand on the Add a third dependent drop-down list, however, my problem is 'Turkey' is a repetition. Because 'Turkey' is a repetition as a dependent list, I could not link the 3 dependent list Please assist what can be done Hi, could you please send us a small example workbook to with the link to this comment? Please don't worry if you have confidential information there, we never disclose the data we get from our customers and delete it as soon as the problem is resolved. Or you can replace any important information with some irrelevant data, just keep the format. We'll look into your task and try to help. Hello, if I understand your task correctly, it looks like you forget to create the third drop down list. Or did something wrong when creating one. Please take a closer look at the fifth point of the article above - 5. Add a third dependent drop-down list optional. I kindly ask you to follow the instructions described there. If this doesn't help, I'm afraid we will need more details on your task, lists for drop down, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed this tutorial, thank you so much for the time and effort it surely took to create! When I enter the... My list uses groups and subgroups rather than fruit and exporters. While the cascading dropdowns works well without VB, it has one major drawback! One is NOT able to enter a new value from dropdown, until all sub categories dependant dropdowns are cleared. However one is ABLE to delete or paste a new value, which is a real pity. Would be nice if that loophole could be blocked. Thanks for this post, this is a really interesting approach. I use Excel tables and pivot tables quite often, and so a cascaded dropdown set would be most useful as the validation for a pair of table columns. So as an example, say I had a second table to collect fruit inspections with columns: Inspection Number Fruit Observed Country of Origin Inspection Result I'd like to put the Fruit dropdown in the Fruit Observed, and have that cascade to the Country of Origin field on the same row. Jeff I made for myself a simpler 2 step solution for detecting primary and secondary dropdowns that mismatch due to changing primary after secondary has been selected: Step 1: start primary and secondary choices with matching numbers i. Step 2: Use conditional formatting to make the secondary choice cell change color say turn bright red if first left digit of primary not equal to first left digit of secondary, i. We can also use conditional cell formatting to show a glaringly different color if no choices have been made yet. Well if we change the value of the Cell in the C7 then the Value of the Cell D7 should also Change according to the corresponding List of C7 or turn blank. But the value of D7 always remain the previous value of Data Validation changed in C7. We have to Change D7 manually later after changing C7. Can it be possible without VB. Is there a way to not have it? Is there a way to reference a complete table for each dropdown? Or do I have to make independent lists for everything?

Either Information or Warning will let the users enter their own text in the combo box. In other words, how can you make a dropdown list dynamic. Microsoft Excel lets you create simple forms that your users can enter data. How do I add extra cells. However, this method has a number of limitations. The user selects an actor from the dropdown list about 4 lines long. The idea is to use 2 INDEX functions, where the first gets the upper-left cell and the second returns the lower-right cell of the range, or the OFFSET dropdown in excel with nested INDEX and COUNTA. How to delete a drop-down list If you no longer want to have drop-down boxes in your Excel worksheet, you can remove them from some or all cells. To delete a drop-down list, see. Let's consider the ways of performing this task. Both of the lists contain the same values.

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