Excel’s data validation feature offers an efficient way to perform a variety of tasks. This collection of techniques demonstrates several handy ways to put data validation to work. From the ebook: ...

Data validation in Excel lets you restrict what can be entered into a cell, whether whole numbers, decimals, dates, or a certain number of characters. However, one of the most powerful capabilities of ...

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 ...

Q: I have an Excel spreadsheet that I update weekly with our employees’ Actual Sales and Sales Goals. I manually insert a red circle to indicate those who did not reach their sales goal by more than a ...

When multiple data variables are accommodated in a project, the time and spatial grids of those variables must be identical. As such, you must control the data other people enter. That’s when you need ...

Use Excel data validation to prevent duplicate values in a column Your email has been sent Prevent duplicates before they happen by combining a simple function with data validation. Excel has built-in ...

Excel’s dynamic, dependent drop-down lists are a fantastic solution for data management. These lists automatically adapt to your data, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Dynamic array formulas are the ...

In this article we will show you how to display multiple columns in a validation list in Excel. We will show you a method that can then be applied to your data. To create a validation list with ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Data validation in Excel allows you to create drop-down menus right inside individual cells. You can also restrict the types of values entered into different cells.

I began writing this series of blogs on Excel for Microcontroller Central. When it was shut down, Brad Albing (then editor of Planet Analog) agreed to copy the existing database across as a base for ...