
It's not as if dropdown lists are the most sophisticated thing in the Excel domain.
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One difference is that she is a Mac user (High Sierra 10.13.6.) I have verified her Excel version as Microsoft Excel for Mac, Version 16.43 (20110804), which seems to be a 2020 version.Īnyone have an explanation? This is very frustrating. Create a drop-down list Create a drop-down list You can help people work more efficiently in worksheets by using drop-down lists in cells. In the cell in which you want only the listed possibilities, go to Data Data Validation. Apply the Conditional Formatting to color coded the drop-down list values. In the settings tab, select 'List' from Allow box From the source field, type equal sign () and immediately followed by the name you defined in step 3. Cells A1 through A4 on Sheet2 now have the range name of Cookies. Select the Name Box above Column A and below the Excel menu. For this example, select cells A1A4 on Sheet2. So, after the Office upgrades helped most, there remains a user for which the dropdowns still don't work. Select the cells that you want to have drop-down list. Select the cells you want to use for the drop-down list. The dropdown in Cell B15 of the "Data Entry" sheet allows the user, after selecting a Branch, to only see the Words from the "Word DD" sheet (fed by "Word List" sheet) that belong to their Branch. The dropdown in Cell A15 of the "Data Entry" sheet (fed by "Branch List" & "Branch DD" sheets) allows the user to type in part of a Branch Name and then click the arrow to narrow down the dropdown results. Suppose I have a dataset of items as shown below and I want to create a drop-down list in cell C1. I guess that means that some of the formulas/functions present in the "Branch DD" and "Word DD" sheets (which feed the dropdowns) were unsupported in Office 2016. The dropdowns were completely unresponsive when clicking the arrow.įor most of them, it was discovered that they were using Office 2016 and that after upgrading, the dropdowns worked as expected. Tables and Filters Related MAC Excel Shortcuts + + F To toggle Autofilter +, To activate filter + Space, To select the table row + Space. On the Settings tab, select List from the Allow drop-down list (see, drop-down lists are everywhere). In the Data Tools section of the Data tab, click the Data Validation button.

In theSourceinput box, enter the name of your named range for the list source.

In the Allowdropdown, select Listfrom the options. This will open up the Data Validationmenu on the Settings tab. With the attached, a handful out of hundreds of users were not able to use the dropdown lists demonstrated in Cells A15 & B15 of the "Data Entry" sheet. Now, select the cell into which you want to add a drop-down list and click the Data tab. Click on the Data Validationbutton in the Data Toolsgroup.
