How To Create Drop Down List In Excel, This Will Make You A Pro Fast

In this article, we will like to teach you how to create drop down list in excel in few simple steps.

Excel is one of the packages of the Microsoft office suite developed to help with simple accounting processes and mathematical calculations.

As simple as excel is, it is a powerful tool used by many professional accountants and data experts to process and manage data.

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2007 to 2019 excel version contains more than 1 million rows, above 16,000 columns, and more than 17 billion cells.

How to create drop down list in excel

The following steps if strictly adhered to,   will enable you to be able to create drop down list in excel like a professional.

Before you proceed, I will advise you to type the list you want to use in new separate sheet of the same workbook and name it.

You will make use of this sheet when the time comes.

1. Open a blank excel sheet
2. Click in the cell you want to create the list
3. On the menu bar, click Data
4. Locate and click the Data Validation tab at the right-hand side of the menu bar
5. Click on down arrow against Allow beside Any Value field  and select list on the displayed box

1. Just click on Source button to select the already created list in a new excel sheet
2. Click and highlight  the content of the list you had earlier created
3. Press Enter on your keyboard
4. Click Okay

After following the above steps, you would have been able to create a drop down list .

Please note that besides learning how to create drop down list in excel, you can as well be able to create a short list like gender (Male/Female)

To do that, follow steps 1 to 6, then type the content separating them with commas e.g male, female, and press okay.

Besides learning how to create drop down list in excel, there are quite a handful of other excel skill that can make your work easier and faster.

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