With Microsoft Excel, you can simplify data entry by adding a drop-down list to a cell, allowing users to pick an option from the list instead of entering data. You can further tailor the spreadsheet ...

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...

The Data Validation feature in Excel 2013 offers a List option to confine selections in a cell to a preconfigured series of values. This selection can further influence the values in another list by ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...