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Default Cascade selection of Drop down menus

If lists B and C are always triggered from the selection in list A, why not
replace B and C dropdowns with IF statements or VLOOKUP:

=IF(A2="Blue","Beige",IF(A2="Red","Stone","Black") )

-OR-

=VLOOKUP(A2,othersheet!A1:B1000,2,FALSE)

The IF statement simply checks the values in A and, if it finds a match,
sets the value in B. But that can be awkward and hard to update if you have
lots of possible combinations. Better is a VLOOKUP which checks a reference
list elsewhere (in this case, on another workheet I named "othersheet") and
returns the value on the second column (that's the "2") when it finds a match
for A2 in the first column.

For column C, expand the reference list to three columns (A1:C1000) and use
a similar formula to grab the matching value in the third column:

=VLOOKUP(A2,othersheet!A1:B1000,3,FALSE)

HTH

"KC" wrote:

Using Excel 2003. I have created several drop down options using Validation
lists. My question is can I have the program autoselect several options from
other validation lists based on my selection of another validation list?

For example, I have drop down lists A, B, and C. Each with 3 selections.
So instead of changing Lists A, B, and C seperatly, can I have B, and C
automatically go to selection 2 when I select A2?

Hopefully that makes sense.