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[Closed] Teach an old dog a (probably simple) new Excel trick

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It's 20 years since I last had to use Excel properly and it's moved on faster than I have 🤦‍♂️

Need to produce a spreadsheet for the team to request leave over the Easter school holiday period. Basically dates across the top, names down the side, then I want each cell to offer "working", "annual leave" and "non working day" options in a dropdown.

I'm not even sure what that function is called, and a hunt round the Office365 help areas doesn't obviously produce it either, so I thought I'd ask here.

Normally these spreadsheets are produced by the business planners, my mistake was asking where the Easter one was and being set a "development opportunity" by the boss


 
Posted : 01/03/2021 4:01 pm
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I've not used them myself but this looks like it's what you want

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-create-and-manage-drop-down-lists-28db87b6-725f-49d7-9b29-ab4bc56cefc2


 
Posted : 01/03/2021 4:03 pm
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You need to look go to the Data tab and poke around in "Data Validation" options. You can set a cell to only be populated by specific values selected from a drop down menu. The options are typically listed on another sheet.


 
Posted : 01/03/2021 4:05 pm
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Superb, found it now

Thanks guys


 
Posted : 01/03/2021 4:05 pm
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Excel, the accounting persons hammer! 🙂


 
Posted : 01/03/2021 5:53 pm

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