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ahmad ali
Brass Contributor
Aug 02, 2020
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Multiple Drop Down Lists

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Hello,

could you please help me in this:

 

depending to the data in the Table 1 ,
create dynamic drop down list to be ability filling the Table 2 according to administrative division to three level , each admin level depends on the previous admin level

(please see the file attached) note: I use Excel 2016.

thanks!

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    • KK1464's avatar
      KK1464
      Copper Contributor

      TheAntony Hi,

      Can you suggest me a way to create a troubleshooting guide with dropdown lists.
      The issues will be categorized and when user selects a category it will show the next level of classification and at the end of hierarchy the issue will be there along with the solution.
      Here we need multiple drop down lists 
      the values of seconf dropdown should be dependant on the value selected in the first dropdown
      the 3rd dropdown should be dependant on the value selected in 1st dropdown and so on

    • ahmad ali's avatar
      ahmad ali
      Brass Contributor

      Thanks TheAntony  so much

      Yes,exactly like that

       

      please,I have questions:

      1- the tables you inserted have filters signs ( though columns are not filtered) - are they necessary?

      2- The way you got column P is that you copied column B (B6:B32) then you applied (remove duplicates) then you inserted column O accordingly(cell by cell) - ?right

       

      thanks!

       

       

      • TheAntony's avatar
        TheAntony
        Iron Contributor

        ahmad ali ,

         

        1. I made the helper tables into official Excel Tables (Insert->Table) so that they will expand dynamically and the formulas that reference it will also expand accordingly. They are necessary if your list may grow in the future. 
        2. Correct. I copied over unique values so I can lookup for the dynamic drop-downs in the Data Validation Formula. I did this because you had mentioned you were using Excel 2016 so you wouldn't have the latest Excel functions like Filter and Unique.

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