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 ...

If you’ve used data validation controls, you know how easy they are to add and how helpful they can be. This type of control is truly one of Excel’s most helpful features, because the drop ...

Figure A We’ll add a data validation control to this sheet. Click the Data tab, and then, click Data Validation in the Data Tools group. In the resulting dialog, choose List from the Allow dropdown.

Due to how Data validations are implemented in Excel/Office Open Xml it is always better to use a shared range rather than adding the validations on each row. For example: if you have 50 000 cells and ...