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Creating drop-downs from table headers in Excel seems impossible—but this trick fixes it
Sync your drop-down menus with table headers using this robust, auto-expanding Named Range trick.
Drop-down lists in Microsoft Excel (and Word and Access) allow you to create a list of valid choices that you or others can select for a given field. This is especially useful for fields that require ...
Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.
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