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Creating drop-down menus with Data Validation

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Creating drop-down menus with Data Validation

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- [Instructor] All right, for this pro tip, I want to talk about one of my favorite Excel tools: Data Validation, and specifically, how to use Data Validation to create dropdown lists within cells. Now, quick summary here, Data Validation is all about limiting the values that a certain cell can accept. So you can say, I only want this cell to take whole numbers or positives or negatives, or date ranges, or data types like text or values. And you can access that menu from the Data tab, click Data Validation. Now within that Data Validation menu, you've got an option called a List. And the List option is the one that I use most frequently. That's what's going to allow you to create that dropdown menu containing a specific set of items. And you can either type those items directly in the dialog box separated by comments, or you can reference a cell range containing your list. Now, in this case here, we've manually typed them…

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