If we consider Microsoft Excel’s past before the online boom, it was primarily built as an offline-only spreadsheet software, such as for maintaining databases and organizing large data sets.

Go to Data on the Ribbon, and in the Data Tools group, choose Data Validation. The Data Validation window that pops up allows you to set your criteria in many ways. For our example, choose Whole ...

Follow the steps below to create a drop-down list using data validation in Excel. If you want to add a message pop up, you can click the Input Message tab and check the checkbox for “Show input ...

This post will help you if you see a message in Excel, saying Retrieving data, Wait for a few seconds, then try cutting or copying again.

You can use Excel's data validation feature to make a drop-down menu in Excel that lets you specify that only yes or no answers, or other types of designated data, are allowed.

Here are four ways to express dates using data validation: literal values, input values, a list, and formulas. I’m using Excel 2016 (desktop) on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

Automated Data Entry in Excel. One way businesses can save time and money is using Excel spreadsheets as data tables in which to store customer information, inventory details or other important ...

Choose Validation from the Data menu. In Excel 2007, click the Data tab and choose Data Validation from the Data Validation option’s drop-down list (in the Data Tools group). Click the Settings tab.