Favorite Excel Calendar Drop Down
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Excel calendar drop down. Dealing with dates in excel is tricky and error-prone. Create the first date in function of the drop down. Link this new drop-down list to this range of year.
To name a range first select the range of data and then insert a table to the range then put a name to the range from the name box on the left-hand side of the window. You can do the same by following the below steps. Here in the second method I will introduce the Colored Drop-down List feature of Kutools for Excel which can help you quickly apply conditional formatting and highlight cells or rows based on the drop-down list selections easily.
In this article Ill first show how to create an in-cell drop-down list using data validation and then Ill show some examples that demonstrate awesome things you can do with drop downs. Based on the data in the table we want to provide two drop-downs that allow the user to select a From date and a To date as follows. Otherwise Excel validates your data entry but does not show the drop-down button to select items from the list.
How do we remove the blank cells from the drop down without changing the range of the drop down. Therefore we want our From date drop-down to begin with 112015 and to include the first day of the month for all months with data such as 212015 and 312015. An Excel drop down list is a useful feature when youre creating data entry forms or Excel Dashboards.
First create a set of a database to be shown in the drop-down list. Excel Text to Columns. If you are using Excel Tables and I highly recommend you do you can press ShiftAlt Down Arrow from any cell inside the table to open the filter drop-down menu for that column.
Another Drop-down list for the year. We can easily create a professional template by using the Drop Down List in Excel mainly used for the data validation part. Otherwise Excel validates your data entry but does not show the drop-down button to select items from the list.