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drop down menus

ResolvedVersion 2010

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Drop down menus

How to create dropdown menu in excel

RE: Drop down menus

Hi Sana,

Thank you for the forum question.

Dropdown menus are created by setup up data validation.

You can type the list or you can use a range in which you have the options you want on you dropdown.

1 select the cell or range where you want to use the list.
2 Go to the Data tab on the ribbon. Click Data Validation in the Data Tools group.

3 In the Data Validation dialog box select List from the Allow list.
4 Click inside the Source: box.
5 Type the option separated by a comma (January,February,March) or select a range in you sheet with the option you want to select from the dropdown.
6 Click OK

I hope this can help you to create dropdown menus.



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Tue 18 Oct 2016: Automatically marked as resolved.

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