In this lesson, I’m going to be showing you how to:
- What is a Drop-down list?
- Create a drop-down list
- Add an input message to a drop-down list
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When you’re ready move onto:
Tutorial 65: VLOOKUP function in Excel | FREE Excel Course
Or go back to:
Lesson 63: Create a table in Excel | Convert data range into a table in Excel | FREE Excel Course
Lesson 62: The AverageA function in Excel | Why and When to use the AverageA function in Excel
Lesson 61: AVERAGEIFS function in Excel | Find the average value by using many criterias in excel
Lesson 60: What is the AVERAGEIF function in Excel | How to insert the AVERAGEIF function in Excel?
Lesson 59: FORMULATEXT function in Excel | Display formulas or functions of individual cells only
Lesson 58: SUMIFS function in Excel to ADD multiple CRITERIONS from different columns
Lesson 57: SUMIF function used to ADD up MULTIPLE different items in one column in Excel | SUMIF+SUMIF
Lesson 56: SUMIF function in Excel | What it is & how to insert the SUMIF function in Excel?
Lesson 55: COUNT function in Excel | COUNTA function in Excel | COUNTBLANK function in Excel
Lesson 54: COUNTIFS function in Excel with 2 examples | How to use Data Filter in Excel
Lesson 53: COUNTIF function used to COUNT MULTIPLE different items in a column in Excel | COUNTIF+COUNTIF
Lesson 52: COUNTIF function in Excel | What it is & how to insert the COUNTIF function in Excel?
Lesson 51: How to use FILTER DATA in Excel | Number Filters: Greater Than Or Equal To | Less Than
Lesson 50: How to LINK data and ADD up cells from a DIFFERENT WORKBOOK in Excel
Lesson 49: How to LINK data and ADD up cells from MULTIPLE different worksheets in Excel
Lesson 48: How to Hide & Unhide Worksheets in Excel | Hide Worksheets, so it CANNOT be unhidden easily in Excel!
Lesson 47: How to Hide & Unhide Rows & Columns in Excel | Hide & Unhide Multiples Columns & Rows in Excel
Lesson 46: Find & Replace in Excel | What is Match Case & Match Entire Cell Contents in Excel
Lesson 45: How to apply borders around and in-between cells in Excel | Difference between borders & Gridlines in Excel
Lesson 44: Use the IF function to work out if you are over BUDGET or not in Excel
Lesson 43: How to change a DATE to different FORMATS in Excel
Lesson 42: How to set and print rows & titles automatically at the top of each page in Excel
Lesson 41: How to display and print GRIDLINES and ROW & COLUMN HEADINGS in Excel
Lesson 40: How to MOVE a chart to a new worksheet on its own in Excel | Name the new worksheet in Excel
Lesson 39: How to insert a LINE chart with MARKERS in Excel | Select non-adjacent data in Excel
Lesson 38: How to add DATA LABELS to charts in Excel | Change colour of pie-chart segments in Excel
Lesson 37: How to CHANGE the CHART from one TYPE to another in Excel | Column chart to Pie chart in Excel
Lesson 36: Best method to COPY a CHART to a new worksheet in Excel | Making sure data is LINKED with the new chart!
Lesson 35: How to insert a NEW worksheet in-between 2 worksheets in Excel | Rearrange and Rename worksheets in Excel
Lesson 34: What is the PLOT & CHART AREA on a chart in Excel | How to SHADE the plot area in a chart in Excel
Lesson 33: How to insert an Embedded Clustered Column Chart in Excel | What is a Clustered Chart?
Lesson 32: What is Scale to Fit in Excel | How to use Scale to Fit (shrink pages) in Excel
Lesson 31: Relative OR Absolute references in Excel | Everything explained | Confusion solved!
Lesson 30: Best method to format numbers to display as PERCENTAGES in Excel
Lesson 29: Everything you need to know about ABSOLUTE cell references before replicating a formula in Excel
Lesson 28: A simple DIVISION formula in Excel | How to DIVIDE in Excel
Lesson 27: What is the thousand separator in Excel | How to use the thousand separator in Excel
Lesson 26: Use the AUTOSUM button to quickly ADD up cells in Excel | What is the Autosum Button in Excel?
Lesson 25: Everything you need to know about FREEZING PANES (rows & columns) in Excel | What is Freeze panes?
Lesson 24: How to SORT data in ASCENDING order in Excel
Lesson 23: Best techniques to widen columns & adjust the height of rows in Excel
Lesson 22: How to RENAME a worksheet in Excel
Lesson 21: How to COPY cells from one spreadsheet to another spreadsheet in Excel
Lesson 20: How to select multiple NON-ADJACENT cells in Excel | What are the benefits?
Lesson 19: What is a Workbook and Worksheet in Excel | What is the difference between a workbook and worksheet in Excel?
Lesson 18: What is a Formula and Function in Excel | What is the difference between a formula and function in Excel?
Lesson 17: How to PRINT the spreadsheet SHOWING the formulas and functions in Excel
Lesson 16: What is Page Orientation in Excel | Change Portrait orientation to Landscape in Excel
Lesson 15: Format the Font colour in Excel | Shade a range of cells to any colour in Excel
Lesson 14: How to insert a HEADER in Excel? | How to insert an AUTOMATIC FILENAME in the header?
Lesson 13: How to Format cells as Currency, Date, Percentages and apply Decimal Places to numbers in Excel
Lesson 12: Wrap Text in Excel | Break Text to Multiple Lines | Shrink to Fit
Lesson 11: Merge & Center in Excel | Merge Across | Merge Cells
Lesson 10: How to use the INSERT FUNCTION command in Excel
Lesson 9: Simple Subtraction Formula in Excel
Lesson 8: Using the COUNT and COUNTIF function to count ONLY the cells, which contains TEXTUAL data
Lesson 7: Count & CountA function in Excel | Difference between Count and CountA function in Excel
Lesson 6: MIN & MAX function in Excel | Find the Minimum and Maximum value within a range in Excel
Lesson 5: Average Function in Excel | What does Average mean
Lesson 4: Multiplication Formula in Excel | Replicate or Copy Formulas in Excel
Lesson 3: Formatting Cells in Excel | Make a Spreadsheet look visually attractive
Lesson 2: SUM function in Excel | Entering Text & Numbers | FREE Series of Microsoft Excel Lessons
Lesson 1: Introduction to Microsoft Excel | Excel Interface | FREE Series of Microsoft Excel Lessons (pdf guide included)
Hope you are enjoying your learning 🙂
Habib Ali – ICT Tutor
Hi Habib,
It’s cool to add a drop-down list to our excel files which makes it more professional and good for data collecting. Your tutorial is really comprehensive and easy-to-follow. I am sure even an excel newbie could get your points right from the beginning.
For the prices, I think I would use the vlookup function to take the prices from the left table so that I don’t need to choose the prices again for each item. Do you think my way is correct? Thanks in advance.
Matt
Hi Matt, thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.
Yes, you are spot on to say a VLOOKUP function is best to be used to retrieve the prices automatically. But, I have not used it in this tutorial on purpose as I wanted to keep the focus on the drop-down lists. I have created a full tutorial on VLOOKUP function in Excel:
https://lifestyletipsandhacks.com/tutorial-65-vlookup-function-in-excel-free-excel-course
Hi Habib,
Your site is seriously a gem. I have forgotten how to do these after not using excel for so long! Straight to the point and its a good pace, as always.
Best regards,
SAM
Thank you Sam for your support and feedback. I have many more lessons coming, which will cover all aspects of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher etc.
Habib (ICT tutor)
This was a great tutorial. Drop down lists are useful and I think that it gives you a little more control about what others (for example, employees) can put in there, if I understood correctly 😉 It is a good way to keep track of everything.
Thank you Christine for your comment. Yes, drop-down lists allow for only valid data to be inserted or selected from the list.
Habib (ICT tutor)