Purchase Office 2010 Create conditional drop-down

Today’s author is Reinout Dorreboom from the Netherlands, a Technical Consultant at Getronics, where he has worked with Office applications for many years, and where his Microsoft Certified Training skills enabled him to help other people get up to speed with Excel.
In Excel 2007 (and earlier), it’s possible to create a drop-down list. By using the INDIRECT function, you can then create additional drop-down lists that are conditional to the first drop-down list.
In this example we’ll create the following table:  
A
B
C
D
1  
Country
City
Street
2
David
Netherlands
Rotterdam
Abraham van Stolkweg
3
Linda
Germany
Munich
MunichStreet1
4
Peter
Britain
London
Bacon Street (E1)
Columns B, C, and D contain drop-down lists. If you select Netherlands in the drop-down list in column B, only Dutch cities will be displayed in the drop-down list in Column C. If you select Germany, only German cities will be displayed in the drop-down list in Column C. Similarly, when you select a city in Column C, only the street names of that city will be displayed in column D.
To create conditional lists, complete the following procedures. Enter the data
First, we’ll create the table as shown below.


Now, we’ll create a few lists.
First, we’ll create a list of countries. In this example, we create the following countries: In Cell F1, type Netherlands. In Cell G1, type Britain. In Cell H1, type Germany.
As you can see I made a horizontal list instead of a vertical list. This isn’t really necessary, but it is easier to maintain to keep the cities under the right country.
Second, we’ll add three cities to pick from for each country.


Cell F2: Amsterdam
Cell G2: London
Cell H2: Bonn
Cell F3: Rotterdam
Cell G3: Canterbury
Cell H3: Berlin
Cell F4: Eindhoven
Cell G4: Manchester
Cell H4: Munich
Now, we’ll create a list of streets for each city. In the example, you can then choose from two streets per city.


Cell F8: AmsterdamStreet1
Cell G8: LondonStreet1
Cell H8: BonnStreet1
Cell F9: AmsterdamStreet2
Cell G9: LondonStreet2
Cell H9: BonnStreet2
Cell F11: RotterdamStreet1
Cell G11: CanterburyStreet1
Cell H11: BerlinStreet1
Cell F12: RotterdamStreet2
Cell G12: CanterburyStreet2
Cell H12: BerlinStreet2
Cell F14: EindhovenStreet1
Cell G14: ManchesterStreet1
Cell H14: MunichStreet1
Cell F15: EindhovenStreet2
Cell G15: ManchesterStreet2
Cell H15: MunichStreet2
The worksheet should look like this now:

Define the names
Ok, all content is provided. Now we can start creating a name for each range. Select the cells F2:F4 and name the range: Netherlands Select the cells G2:G4 and name the range: Britain Select the cells H2:H4 and name the range: Germany
Select the cells F7:F8 and name the range: Amsterdam Select the cells F10:F11 and name the range: Rotterdam Select the cells F13:F14 and name the range: Eindhoven
Select the cells G7:G8 and name the range: London Select the cells G10:G11 and name the range: Canterbury Select the cells G13:G14 and name the range: Manchester
Select the cells H7:H8 and name the range: Bonn Select the cells H10:H11 and name the range: Berlin Select the cells H13:H14 and name the range: Munich
For information about how to define names, see Define and use names in formulas. Create the drop-down lists
After defining the names, we can create the drop-down lists.
First, we’ll make a drop-down list for Country.
1. Select cell B2.
2. On the ribbon,Windows 7 64 Bit, click the Data tab.
3. In the Data Tools group,Genuine Office 2010, click Data Validation.
4. Fill the values as follows:
   In the Allow box, select List.
   In the Source box, type =$F$1:$H$1



Note: Dollar signs ($) are used in the formula so that we can drag the cell downwards from David to Peter.
5. Click OK.
6. Drag the cell content downwards.



Now, we’ll make the first conditional drop-down list.
1. Select Cell C1.
2. On the ribbon, click the Data tab.
3. In the Data Tools group, click Data Validation.
4. Fill the values as follows:     In the Allow box, select List.
   In the Source box, type =INDIRECT($B2)
      


Note: In the formula, a Dollar sign ($) is not placed before the row. That is because we want to drag the cell formula downwards.
5. Click OK.

Note: If you click OK,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, you may get an error message indication that the evaluation of the formula was an error. This is correct, because the cell where this list depends on (B2) is empty.



6. Drag the cell content downwards.


Now, we’ll make our second conditional drop-down list.
1. Select cell D2.
2. On the ribbon, click the Data tab.
3. In the Data Tools group, click Data Validation.
4. Fill the values as follows:

     In the Allow box,Purchase Office 2010, select List.
   In the Source box, type =INDIRECT($C2)
     


Note: In the formula, a Dollar sign ($) is not placed before the row. That is because we want to drag the cell formula downwards.
5. Click OK.

Note: If you click OK, you may get an error message indicating that the evaluation of the formula was an error. This is correct, because the cell on which this list depends (C2) is empty.



6. Drag the cell content downwards.


Done!
If you choose a country,Windows 7 Activation Key, the City field displays only cities for that country. And only streets for the selected city will be shown. <div