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This video shows how to create dependent Dropdown lists in Excel to easily add new categories and subcategories and have them immediately available in the dropdown lists.
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Dropdown lists are a fundamental feature to ensure clean data input in Excel.
When a solution uses Data Validation in multiple columns, very often, there is a dependency between the values we want to enter in those columns. Dependency means that the list of valid values to enter in a column depends on the values we entered in previous columns.
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0:00 - Introduction - Explaining Dependent Dropdown Lists
1:10 - Introduction - Explaining how Conditional Formatting is used to point invalid entries
1:42 - Introduction - Explaining the elements in the workbook supporting the dependent dropdown mechanism
2:31 - Demonstrating that the dynamic dropdown structure is dynamic
4:21 - Celia introduces herself, and the Excel Snap Reports training program
5:02 - Explaining Table of categories and subcategories, examples of applications
5:47 - Excel versions that support this solution
7:38 - Building data validation for the first column (categories)
9:58 - Building data validation for the second column (subcategories)
25:15 - Setting Data Validation for when the category and subcategory values are not a valid combination
27:41 - Possibility of replacing names with their formulas
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