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drop down lists

ResolvedVersion 2016

Clélia-elsa has attended:
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Drop down lists

how to create a second drop down list that update based on the value of the first one.
eg. if I have two columns, one with countries and one with cities, if I select USA in the first drop down column, then I only see in my second drop down the cities in the USA

Edited on Wed 30 Aug 2017, 21:48

RE: drop down lists

Hi Clélia-elsa,

Thank you for the forum question.

Please find attached file.

If you click in column A you can select a country. This will control the cities you can select in column B. I am using dynamic ranges so I can add more countries and cities without updating the rules. Select column B inside the dynamic range and click datavalidation, you can see how I reference the dynamic ranges in the Indirect function.

I hope my example make sense


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datavalidation.xlsx

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