Create multiple dependent drop-down lists in Excel [EASY]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- Make 2 AND 3 levels of dependent data validation lists in multiple rows. It's super easy to set up with named ranges.
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0:00 What are dependent drop-down lists?
0:40 Prepare data (named ranges)
1:15 Insert level 1 drop-down lists
1:47 Insert level 2 drop-down lists
3:34 Dependent drop-down lists in 3 levels
4:03 Level 1 drop-down lists (for 3 levels)
4:17 Prepare data for 3 levels
5:18 Level 2 drop-down lists (for 3 levels)
5:52 Level 3 drop-down lists
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but how can we get rid of BLANKS? for instance @03:26
U are the only one who actualy explained that u need to delete the second dollar sign in order to work! Thanks man!
You are the only one who gave me the answer I need. All were using Excel 2021 and Excel 365
Such a lifesaver, out of all the videos I was trying to search for, glad I found yours, with clear and easier explanation. I appreciate, thank you~
I was looking for how to drag the dependent drop down for many days, but you solved it in a very simple way. Thanks 👍
Dude I saw one lady do this with a ridiculous compound match formula, then I saw another guy say that we had to use "xlookup" which doesn't even exist in excel 2016 or 2019. This video is the only one that makes sense. Thanks!
OMG this is so easy! I watched so many videos that make it horribly complicated and they just don't work! Thank you! Got it the first time!
Wow! You taught the easiest and simplest way to create dependent dropdown lists among all the videos I watched. Thank you so very much.
Amazing video. I searched multiple drop-down lists on TH-cam. Literally, this is the simplest and most useful one. Thank you very much.
ya, this is the easiest way.
Exactlyyy!!
AMAZING!! Thankyou. I watched 3 other videos before this one and they didn't even mention naming the lists and they had a "filtered list" and I didn't need any of that! Thankyou!
Detailed explanation of the hierarchy selection. Very useful.
Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Good Explanation. Thank you.
I found that Excel can be broken into two or more views. IF you did that then you could put the info on a second sheet and show both at the same time further enhancing a student's ability to take your tutorial information and apply it in their real world.
QUESTION: What about when you are inserting a Dependent Drop-Down List into an existing Table?
Bro... thanks a whole lot for this. Easy and straight forward.
excellent vid, so well explained and easy to follow. Thank you
This was an excellent tutorial ...clearly explained. Well done! works on Mac too.
I'm happy to hear that :)!
Simple, easy and useful. Happy to subscribe your channel. LOVE
Thanks alot. May Allah bless you.
Fan from Malaysia
perfect. quick and easy. pay attention to the details
Noone showed this in such an easy way! Thanks!
Thankyou your way of teaching is very easy
Excellent, Excellent and only Excellent .Great Respected Sirs.
Great job explaining this.
Got new thing to learn. Thank you!!
Thanks, man, You just made it too simple!
Is there a solution if there is more than one word to describe the range? The naming of ranges is limited to one word only
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot for this tutorial sir!
Saved my life bro, thanks a lot 😍😍
Excellent tutorial, exactly what I needed.
Saved my day, thanks, very appreciated :)
and Finally sb with a sensible way!!!!! merci beaucoup
Great video, it saved me a lot of time.
Thank you very much :-) It's working and very helpful.
Nicely explained 👌
Superthanks!, great tutorial...
Can you please share how to do a dropdown that will change the values on the column ? Say Column A have diff number values and you wanted to have Selection 1, 2 ,3 on dropdown that each has a formula that affects those numbers in a column?
Very nice tutorial!!!
Hi, I learn a lot from your tutorial thanks, man. but I have a problem I hope you can solve, is it possible to remove an item from the data validation list once used in the indirect method?
Nice Presentation, Thanks.
Thanks. I'm just having an issue cause the drop list I have has multiple words in cell, and with "," and spaces, which it doesn't allow me to do. Seems I have to simplify, or do something else. But this video does give a way better explanation than other videos. Thanks again.
Hi, I followed this video for a project I am working for a local charity. My problem is that it doesn't work in every row it misses some and then starts again. I have 15 names in the first column dropdown and then say 20 items per selection in the first column. some seem to work fine and others don't bring up anything.
Any idea?
thanks
Very simple and easy.😊
How do I sync two drop down lists? I want to select one option from one list, and have the corresponding cell in the other list automatically populate. For example, if I select the common plant name, I need the scientific plant name to autopopulate in the other drop down list. Is this possible?
Wonderful n easy 🙏❤️👍🎉😍
Hi sir thanks for easy n effective lesson. It works.
very helpful ! thanks
Very helpful thank you!
Hi! Is it possible to create a tutorial for my case? Where in multiple tabs (Finance, Marketing, HR, Legal let's say) I have the same Header list (People, Assets, Contracts, Systems), but with different data each list in every tab. I have tried using your method and it works in the first tab, Finance. But when I move to Marketing and trying to follow the same steps, when I am trying to rename the list, it will take the data existing under Finance: People, Assets etc. And not the new list under these categories. Is there a way to create multiple dependent drop down list for several tabs, where the header list is the same, but information under each of it is different?
Hi! Am I able to create a drop down list pulling data from different tables not side by side of each other?
Thank me it unlocked me from a corner.
thank you sooooosoooo much!!!
Unable to get this when tried with indirect formula, any setting to be changed, pls let me know
@Spreadsheeto if I wanted to remove the option already selected above how do I do it? For example in minute 06:28, you chose UK and when you were selecting the staff name you had the 3 options again instead of 2
Hi, what's about you would like to choose USA or UK? thanks
Is there way to do this with the name of the list being a number? Excel seems to only like letters and not numbers.
Superb!
Perfect, thanks
Thank You for this short, but very informative and useful video, my Friend! Subscribed and liked!!!
Tried out and it works good!
I got, however, an issue where the sheets content not really so simple is. The range name has various limitation as i see, as well as the value can be quiet long.
'0 - L4-CCI-01-00-Master Process' is the value for example i need to see as a value in dropdown. The named range prohibits whitespaces inside, to begin with digiti and else...
It looks like according to video it works only if Value in indirect lookup range is 1:1 same as the related column name and no other way, for example column is UK and the indirect value in related range is also UK, but in reality it is never as easy as it is here. Sheet values may include symbols like ?, '' '', ' and so on, where formula is then complaining its wrong format.
How would You suggest to deal with such names? Needs to be indexed?
Thank You so much.
I used the =INDIRECT($A2) just like you did but it's not bringing the drop down for the staff. What could be wrong?
Were you able to figure out what was wrong
For some reason, you need to select cells from top do bottom. When I tried to do it from bottom to top id didn't work.@@jasmohitwaraich4873
Was there a solution for this? Mine also does not work when I used the =INDIRECT($A2)
What if when someone change the first column's input, the select value has not reset. If there is a solution that help to reset the selected value when first dropdown changed, that will be absolutely fantastics. Thanks for your sharing anyway.
Does not work on Office 365 in 2024. Not on my PC anyway. I have done this like 6 times, starting over fresh and the resulting pulldown does not work.
this is helpful without using lot of formula....other videos were helpful too in another channel but problem there was XLOOKUP formula.....if we're using older version of window we do not have XLOOKUP so this video is very helpful if you do not have XLOOKUP or if you do not want to use lot of formula...simple technique to get same result..
Thanks for showing me the easier option but here if we choose the second dependent drop and if I delete the first drop down, then it should delete the second dependent drop-down as well but it is not deleted automatically
Great. Thanks
What about for words more than 1word? I can’t get it right. For the 3rd range since the 2nd range has more than 6 words. Please help me with my project. Thank you
This does not work if the data I want to show in the second level is on another sheet of the same file. Any hint how to solve in this case?
Super .....................................🥰
Great job
Drop downs cannot be used within the Forms function. Do you know of any way to remediate that? Their support says there is no fix in the near future.
This is excellent. But I have 3 dropdowns and I need the second one to be not affected by drop down 3
thank you so much
very cooooooooooooool. Thank you very much :)
easy,tq Sir
How can I quickly do this for something with 1000 fields? I can't possibly name all of them
Please I need help, because I'm having a problem setting up a name range for a group if data , it works for some ranges but in other ranges it does not work , why would this happen????
how does this work when your options are on another sheet?
Has a more recent version deleted $ and replaced with r and c for row and column? I get R4C1. I tried deleting column and it gave me a warning but I got nothing in drop down..
Could you explain the indirect() function in more details pls.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider this for another video :)
How would you update values? For example, if I add new items to the range, dependent cells don't show anything. Most of the people in the comments judge other people's complicated procedures while this simple has a lot of problems and is not flexible at all.
THANK YOU!
You're welcome 😊
Thanks
This is such nice tutorial
Thank you!
But I have two columns
Like
Product1 Name1
Product2 Name1
Product1 Name2
Another sheet user select product,
& I want to search all matches of names that belong to particular product.
No names ranges allowed.
Data validation acceptable formula only. Thanks ❤
Hi, when I want to Copy Formula to another rows, the Formula doesen t function. Help please!😊
You are great
The step at 2:30 does not work. Every time i get past the error message, the second drop down is empty rather than having its values.
in first example, I have a huge date, but I can not reach rows number 1974.
The second part isn't working for me I'm doing it exactly the same way but not working
Awesome
but how can we get rid of BLANKS? for instance: & 03:26
dont include blanks when assigning names
What happen if country is from two words?
It did no work on my end either..
awesome
We have 3 cells, validation dropdowns as per the following table.
Cell1 / Cell2 / Cell3
General / Team Materials / Equipment
General / Team Materials / Office supplies
General / Team Materials / Infrastructure
General / Review / Job descriptions
General / Review / Job interviews
Payroll / Absence / Permission
Payroll / Absence / Disciplinary
Payroll / Days off / Vacation
Payroll / Days off / Holiday
So for example, dropdown for Cell 1 shows General and Payroll.
If payroll is selected, dropdown for Cell 2 will be Absence and Days off.
If Days Off is selected, Cell3 will have a dropdown with Vacation and Holiday.
I need this to be done using a single table or range as shown above.
This works for the first row only... but not when I try to apply it to other rows! I've tried SO MANY tutorials and formulas and methods and nothing is working!! I'm so frustrated
SAME! I'm going round in circles trying 12 different ways, none of them work
Why on mine keep showing #REF error?
your explanation and functions never work with me😔?!
Wow!
This didnt work for me, what am I doing wrong??
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how about two or more word? example new York city
=indirect(substitute(A1," ","_")