Contents
- 1 How do I create a drop-down list in Google sheets with multiple selections?
- 2 How do I create a dynamic drop down in Google Sheets?
- 3 How do you use data validation based on another cell in Google Sheets?
- 4 How to create a dependent drop down list in Google Sheets?
- 5 How to select multiple values in Google Sheet?
- 6 How to create list of items in Google Sheets?
How do I create a drop-down list in Google sheets with multiple selections?
Create a drop-down list
- Open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
- Select the cell or cells where you want to create a drop-down list.
- Click Data.
- Next to “Criteria,” choose an option:
- The cells will have a Down arrow.
- If you enter data in a cell that doesn’t match an item on the list, you’ll see a warning.
- Click Save.
How do I create a dynamic drop down in Google Sheets?
Choose ‘List from a range’. Then, fill out the name of the tab you want to pull from, an exclamation mark, and the range you need. In tab July column A, I selected the entire column, right-click, choose ‘Data validation’, and enter ‘List from a range’. I wrote the range Dropdowns!
How do I put multiple items in one cell in Google Sheets?
Click the cell you wish to add extra rows to and type the following formula: =char(10). You will not see the formula show up if you copy and paste it, but the rows will be added automagically. If you type it by hand, the formula shows up and then just press the ”Enter” button to make it disappear and the row appear.
How do you use data validation based on another cell in Google Sheets?
1. In our Google Sheet, we can highlight the cells we want included in our range and then in the Menu, select Data > Data validation. The Cell range is already selected. Click the Reject Input button (so invalid data cannot be entered), and ensure that the Show validation help text check box is ticked.
How to create a dependent drop down list in Google Sheets?
Now let us learn how to create a dependent drop-down list in Google Sheets. There are the names of two authors in the range C2: D2. This range we can use to create a drop-down list. See the list of their books in the range C3: D10 that we can use to create a dependent drop-down list. We can use the data in Cell C2: D2 for the drop-down as below.
Is there any way to select multiple values from a dropdown list in Google?
The Google Spreadsheet looks like can only select one value in the dropdown list. Is there any way to select multiple values from a dropdown list in google spreadsheet? To Add to AlexG’s answer, a better and enhanced version of multi-select is found in this following link (which I tried and worked as expected):
How to select multiple values in Google Sheet?
In your Google Sheet, set up data validation for a cell (or cells), using data from a range. In cell validation, do not select ‘Reject input’. Go to Tools > Script editor… Name the file multi-select.gs and paste in the contents of multi-select.gs. File > Save.
How to create list of items in Google Sheets?
If the values to type in the “List of items” is already in your Sheet (here we have it in C2:C11), you can use the below tip. You can use the below TEXTJOIN formula in a blank cell to generate a comma-separated list to use in data validation. It will convert the numbers in the array C2:C11 as a comma separated.