Create multiple dependent drop-down lists in Excel [EASY] 

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U are the only one who actualy explained that u need to delete the second dollar sign in order to work! Thanks man!

Amazing video. I searched multiple drop-down lists on RU-vid. Literally, this is the simplest and most useful one. Thank you very much.

You are the only one who gave me the answer I need. All were using Excel 2021 and Excel 365

Dude I saw one lady do this with a ridiculous compound match formula, then I saw another guy say that we had to use "xlookup" which doesn't even exist in excel 2016 or 2019. This video is the only one that makes sense. Thanks!

Wow! You taught the easiest and simplest way to create dependent dropdown lists among all the videos I watched. Thank you so very much.

I was looking for how to drag the dependent drop down for many days, but you solved it in a very simple way. Thanks 👍

OMG this is so easy! I watched so many videos that make it horribly complicated and they just don't work! Thank you! Got it the first time!

Noone showed this in such an easy way! Thanks!

AMAZING!! Thankyou. I watched 3 other videos before this one and they didn't even mention naming the lists and they had a "filtered list" and I didn't need any of that! Thankyou!

This was an excellent tutorial ...clearly explained. Well done! works on Mac too.

perfect. quick and easy. pay attention to the details

Detailed explanation of the hierarchy selection. Very useful. Thank you.

Such a lifesaver, out of all the videos I was trying to search for, glad I found yours, with clear and easier explanation. I appreciate, thank you~

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you made it incredibly easy, thank you!

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Thankyou your way of teaching is very easy

Thank you very much Its working and you made it very simple

Awesome function! This is going to help me tremendously

Excellent tutorial, exactly what I needed.

Hi, I learn a lot from your tutorial thanks, man. but I have a problem I hope you can solve, is it possible to remove an item from the data validation list once used in the indirect method?

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Thanks, man, You just made it too simple!

Very simple and easy.😊

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Thanks. I'm just having an issue cause the drop list I have has multiple words in cell, and with "," and spaces, which it doesn't allow me to do. Seems I have to simplify, or do something else. But this video does give a way better explanation than other videos. Thanks again.

Thank you very much :-) It's working and very helpful.

Great video, it saved me a lot of time.

and Finally sb with a sensible way!!!!! merci beaucoup

this is helpful without using lot of formula....other videos were helpful too in another channel but problem there was XLOOKUP formula.....if we're using older version of window we do not have XLOOKUP so this video is very helpful if you do not have XLOOKUP or if you do not want to use lot of formula...simple technique to get same result..

Is there a solution if there is more than one word to describe the range? The naming of ranges is limited to one word only

Bro... thanks a whole lot for this. Easy and straight forward.

Very helpful thank you!

@Spreadsheeto if I wanted to remove the option already selected above how do I do it? For example in minute 06:28, you chose UK and when you were selecting the staff name you had the 3 options again instead of 2

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Hi sir thanks for easy n effective lesson. It works.

Good Explanation. Thank you. I found that Excel can be broken into two or more views. IF you did that then you could put the info on a second sheet and show both at the same time further enhancing a student's ability to take your tutorial information and apply it in their real world. QUESTION: What about when you are inserting a Dependent Drop-Down List into an existing Table?

Dear Spreadsheeto. REgarding the multiple dependent dropdown list, can we do it for by row instead of column? if we see your video, you put the country name side by side, and the assistant name below the country. can we do the assistant names beside the relating country, and the countries in a single column? thank you

Saved my day, thanks, very appreciated :)

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot for this tutorial sir!

This is such nice tutorial

I used the =INDIRECT($A2) just like you did but it's not bringing the drop down for the staff. What could be wrong?

Thanks for showing me the easier option but here if we choose the second dependent drop and if I delete the first drop down, then it should delete the second dependent drop-down as well but it is not deleted automatically

Nicely explained 👌

Got new thing to learn. Thank you!!

The second part isn't working for me I'm doing it exactly the same way but not working

excellent vid, so well explained and easy to follow. Thank you

Great. Thanks

Great job explaining this.

We have 3 cells, validation dropdowns as per the following table. Cell1 / Cell2 / Cell3 General / Team Materials / Equipment General / Team Materials / Office supplies General / Team Materials / Infrastructure General / Review / Job descriptions General / Review / Job interviews Payroll / Absence / Permission Payroll / Absence / Disciplinary Payroll / Days off / Vacation Payroll / Days off / Holiday So for example, dropdown for Cell 1 shows General and Payroll. If payroll is selected, dropdown for Cell 2 will be Absence and Days off. If Days Off is selected, Cell3 will have a dropdown with Vacation and Holiday. I need this to be done using a single table or range as shown above.

Has a more recent version deleted $ and replaced with r and c for row and column? I get R4C1. I tried deleting column and it gave me a warning but I got nothing in drop down..

How do I sync two drop down lists? I want to select one option from one list, and have the corresponding cell in the other list automatically populate. For example, if I select the common plant name, I need the scientific plant name to autopopulate in the other drop down list. Is this possible?

Nice Presentation, Thanks.

Superthanks!, great tutorial...

Thank You for this short, but very informative and useful video, my Friend! Subscribed and liked!!! Tried out and it works good! I got, however, an issue where the sheets content not really so simple is. The range name has various limitation as i see, as well as the value can be quiet long. '0 - L4-CCI-01-00-Master Process' is the value for example i need to see as a value in dropdown. The named range prohibits whitespaces inside, to begin with digiti and else... It looks like according to video it works only if Value in indirect lookup range is 1:1 same as the related column name and no other way, for example column is UK and the indirect value in related range is also UK, but in reality it is never as easy as it is here. Sheet values may include symbols like ?, '' '', ' and so on, where formula is then complaining its wrong format. How would You suggest to deal with such names? Needs to be indexed? Thank You so much.

THANK YOU!

This is excellent. But I have 3 dropdowns and I need the second one to be not affected by drop down 3

Thank me it unlocked me from a corner.

Hi! Is it possible to create a tutorial for my case? Where in multiple tabs (Finance, Marketing, HR, Legal let's say) I have the same Header list (People, Assets, Contracts, Systems), but with different data each list in every tab. I have tried using your method and it works in the first tab, Finance. But when I move to Marketing and trying to follow the same steps, when I am trying to rename the list, it will take the data existing under Finance: People, Assets etc. And not the new list under these categories. Is there a way to create multiple dependent drop down list for several tabs, where the header list is the same, but information under each of it is different?

Does not work on Office 365 in 2024. Not on my PC anyway. I have done this like 6 times, starting over fresh and the resulting pulldown does not work.

Very nice tutorial!!!

Hi, when I want to Copy Formula to another rows, the Formula doesen t function. Help please!😊

Can you please share how to do a dropdown that will change the values on the column ? Say Column A have diff number values and you wanted to have Selection 1, 2 ,3 on dropdown that each has a formula that affects those numbers in a column?

Super .....................................🥰

Hi! Am I able to create a drop down list pulling data from different tables not side by side of each other?

very helpful ! thanks

What if when someone change the first column's input, the select value has not reset. If there is a solution that help to reset the selected value when first dropdown changed, that will be absolutely fantastics. Thanks for your sharing anyway.

This is not working for me. Each time I try to do the Data Validation for the =INDIRECT($E2) I get an error. I have also tried this with Xlookup which I was able to get that to work, but it would not carry down the column.

Unable to get this when tried with indirect formula, any setting to be changed, pls let me know

thank you so much

Hi, I followed this video for a project I am working for a local charity. My problem is that it doesn't work in every row it misses some and then starts again. I have 15 names in the first column dropdown and then say 20 items per selection in the first column. some seem to work fine and others don't bring up anything. Any idea? thanks

Perfect, thanks

The step at 2:30 does not work. Every time i get past the error message, the second drop down is empty rather than having its values.

Drop downs cannot be used within the Forms function. Do you know of any way to remediate that? Their support says there is no fix in the near future.

You are great

Could you explain the indirect() function in more details pls.

Is there way to do this with the name of the list being a number? Excel seems to only like letters and not numbers.

This only works if the list header name is a single word, not having spaces or special characters. If the list name that you are giving has to be like "Local Banks", "International Banks", "Swift Code" then this approach breaks. A great tutorial otherwise.

What about for words more than 1word? I can’t get it right. For the 3rd range since the 2nd range has more than 6 words. Please help me with my project. Thank you

But I have two columns Like Product1 Name1 Product2 Name1 Product1 Name2 Another sheet user select product, & I want to search all matches of names that belong to particular product. No names ranges allowed. Data validation acceptable formula only. Thanks ❤

Hi, what's about you would like to choose USA or UK? thanks

Please I need help, because I'm having a problem setting up a name range for a group if data , it works for some ranges but in other ranges it does not work , why would this happen????

Great job

How would you update values? For example, if I add new items to the range, dependent cells don't show anything. Most of the people in the comments judge other people's complicated procedures while this simple has a lot of problems and is not flexible at all.

What happen if country is from two words?

how does this work when your options are on another sheet?

in first example, I have a huge date, but I can not reach rows number 1974.

Thanks

This works for the first row only... but not when I try to apply it to other rows! I've tried SO MANY tutorials and formulas and methods and nothing is working!! I'm so frustrated

very cooooooooooooool. Thank you very much :)

How can I quickly do this for something with 1000 fields? I can't possibly name all of them

thank you sooooosoooo much!!!

Superb!

easy,tq Sir

Why on mine keep showing #REF error?

It does not work

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