Comments on: How to use Data Validation in Microsoft Excel to create dropdown lists

By: Hamdi

Hamdi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:29:04 +0000

Hi.

Does anybody know how to create a drop list from an existing one by selecting any value? VLOOKUP didn’t work as it’s giving only one choice, not a list.

Please advise.

Thanks.

By: Sreegayathri

Sreegayathri — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:51:25 +0000

Hi,

How to find the source for the dropdown list in an existing file. so that we can edit it, if the file is not created by us?

thanks
Gayathri

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:42:41 +0000

This a very useful tutorial. Nicely presented easy to understand.

By: Manny

Manny — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:19:14 +0000

Thank you for the very useful Excel tip. However, I also wanted to know if this was possible with colors? Basically, I want the user to have a drop down list of color choices and only let them choose from the colors I specify. Can’t figure out how to do that! Thanks.

By: Alina

Alina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:09:07 +0000

I was just wondering if you can display objects/images/little icons (e.g. a check mark representing ‘achieved’; a half filled circle representing ‘in progress’; a triangle representing ‘problematic’; etc.) instead of text in the drop down list. I would like to learn how to do that.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:02:53 +0000

Is there anyway that you can have multipule colours in the drop down list. The cells that I am drawing from have a different colour eg- March(red), April(blue), May (green) for each month. Is there anyway to carry these colours into the drop down box rather than it just defaulting to black or the colour selected for that cell?

By: albert

albert — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:23:53 +0000

wow..thanks a lottttttttt….this is what I’ve been looking to do in Excel for a long time!

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By: B Agrawal

B Agrawal — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:47:58 +0000

As I am very new to Excel, can anyone tell me how to change the value in a drop down list in Excel? For example, if my drop down list contain 3 values a,b,c and if I click “a”, it will show the value “X” (example), and if i click b it will show “Y’ (example) and so on…thanks!

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By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:04:52 +0000

Is anyone able to tel me if it is possible to use symbols (wingdings) in a dropdown list. I want to use differnet coloured arrows up down sideways etc in Gold Silver Bronze yellow Red (A B C D E) basically rather than pass fail or gradings as above.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:25 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!!!! This has helped me and i was done in 5 miinutes…..tried for hours…..

Again many thanks and keep posting your excel wisdom!!

Cheers,

Patrick

By: raz

raz — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:11:35 +0000

hey its nice tutorial. thanx

By: barli

barli — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:05:11 +0000

it helps alot but the dropdown menu only visible if the cell which we put data validation on it is selected, is there any way to make the dropdown menu visiable all the time so that we know the cell is dropdown menu.

By: Ritu

Ritu — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:03:23 +0000

Very good stuff