How is Dropdown Useful in Excel? Excel is unarguably one of the best data entry software and the most widely used across the fields and by a wide range of people some of whom are excel experts.
From a user perspective, when I’m entering a number of rows of data, it’s difficult for me to type the text in a particular column every time I create a new row. Let’s say I am entering the transactions happening in a vegetable stall. Then I need to type the name of the vegetable every time a transaction happens, number of Kilograms the customer took, the amount he/she paid etc. And when I’m analyzing at the end of the month to understand the sales of each vegetable, I will have to add new vegetables to the dictionary, 1. Tomoto 2. Tamoto 3. Tamato 4. Tomat etc. I don’t make these mistakes because I don’t know how to write a simple word “Tomato”; but while entering loads of data I tend to make small mistakes, which will trouble me a lot at the end. So, a dropdown is inarguably one of the most useful data entry elements in Excel. Excel consultants can do it. How to create a dropdown list in Excel? There are multiple ways in which you can create a dropdown list in Excel. 1. Data Validation 2. Form Control (Combo Box) 3. ActiveX Control (Combo Box)