Click the Data tab and select Data Validation in the Data Tools group. A Data Validation dialog box will appear. Under Allow, click the drop-down arrow and select List from the drop-down list.

A common use of data validation is to create a drop-down list. Use it to restrict the type of data that users enter into an Excel cell.

Specifically, you can use Power Query to import a single dataset like an Excel workbook, a table from a website, or a database. Alternatively, you can import multiple datasets from worksheets in an ...

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

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.

Drop-down lists in Excel let you create a list of valid choices that you can select for a given field. We'll show you how to use tables, named ranges, formulas, data validation, and table styles.

In the Data Validation dialog box, select List from the Allow drop-down menu. In the Source field, enter the values you want to appear in the drop-down list, separated by commas, or select a range ...

Go to the Data Validation dialog menu in the same way as if you were deleting the menu options, but instead of deleting them all, simply delete only the ones you want to remove.

For many, the INDEX-XMATCH combination in Excel is the go-to method for retrieving a value from a dataset. However, you can ...

Susan Harkins shows you a quick method for removing validation rules for multiple ranges in Excel, at the same time.