inserting a drop down menu in excel 2016

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The problem with this approach is that if you use this in a lot of cells and later want to update the list, you have to update all cells that use the list and there is a good chance you'll miss one. This approach is great for simple Yes/No options and other lists that appear only once in your spreadsheet. I’ll make it even easier – here’s the spreadsheet I used to write this tutorial and take screen shotsĪnd Tim, You any any other reader can always send the beer to me by clicking beer mug at the top of the page.Entering the Source of a Drop Down List as a Comma-Delimited List I told you it was sleazy, cheesy and easy! Only you know the truth! There is no advanced code, you’re just hiding the data in C5 under the Date control that is updating or controlling C5! Then do any date calculations you need to do using C5 as the reference! You can tell each one what cell to update (Linked Cell) and you can move the Date Control right over the top of the field it is updating! Think about that – Move the date picker right over the top of the cell it is linked to. Well you can create as many of these drop downs as you like.

Repeat step 1-3 until you are as giddy as a little girl.

The D5 was just to ensure that C5 was actually showing a date.

You will see cell D5 (which =C5) change as well.

You will see Cell C5 change to that date.

Select the Date Drop down and change the date.

You might get an error message – ignore it!.

Look for the field Linked Cell and enter C5 (that’s where we want the date change to happen).

Right Click in the calendar control and select Properties.

Move the calendar control box up around the C3 area just to move it out of the way.

Let’s go back to Design Mode by clicking it.

Still got that calendar control visible like in the image above?.

What cell do you want the date to change in? Let’s say C5 Here is where the genius of my non-code writing laziness pays off. You can click it and change the date as much as you want but nothing else is changing in your spreadsheet! This allows you to play with the settings for the date box you just created.ĭeselect Design Mode and you have a date control! Select the drop down and a calendar appears! Holy Cow that’s super cool awesome but guess what! It doesn’t do anything! You will also notice that you are in Design Mode because that icon is highlighted.

You will also see code in the top akin to “=EMBED(“MSComCtl2.DTPicker.2″,””)”

Your mouse will turn in to a cross hair – click and hold, draw a rectangle, release. There are all sorts of funky add-ins you can use in your spreadsheets! We are looking for the Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control Scroll through the list of controls and look what’s available. Go to the developer tab and select Insert, followed by the little Pink Floyd-esque More Controls icon. Now you have the developer tab with all the controls for forms, xml, code, etc.

Check the box for “ Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon“.Another menu will open – Select Popular.With the Pearl menu open select Excel Options from the very bottom on the right.The Pearl is the ball in the top left corner that gives you the option to Print, Save, etc. Select the Pearl or “ Office Button” in Excel.The first thing you need to do is enable the Developer Tab in Excel. Would you like the easiest, cheesiest, sleaziest way to do this? Well then watch this: I assume you just want someone using the spreadsheet to be able to select a cell, have a calendar drop down and then populate the field with whatever date the person chooses.

This seems like it would be so easy yet when you look around on-line the answers are all full of VBA scripts and custom code. I want to have a cell formated so that I can have a pull down menu of a calendar in which to choose the date. I am sure that I saw a pull down menu in a worksheet cell. How do I insert a calendar as a way for a user to click on the cell have the date box open and choose the date that should be in the cell? Also where do I send the beer? So you want to create a drop down calendar in Excel? Apart from sending alerts to Outlook from Excel (working on that article as well) this has been the most requested how-to as of late.

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Inserting a drop down menu in excel 2016