In cell A1, I have a drop down list (created by Validation feature), this
cell has department listed such as:
Electrical Dept
Plumbing Dept
Etc.

Now, I am looking at having another drop down list in cell A2 which gives me
the data based on first selection, for instance; if I choose Plumbing on A1,
list me only issues for plumbing in A2 such as:
Fitting
Pipe
Threads
Etc.

If the other department, list the others for this corresponding department.
I know this is possible in access but am not sure for excel. Maybe with VBA
code it code work in excel, too.

Thank you for any help/tip provided.
Adnan


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What you want is referred to as dependent Data Validation - check out
this link for ways of achieving it with standard Excel functions:

http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 10, 3:28 pm, Adnan (donotspam) wrote:
In cell A1, I have a drop down list (created by Validation feature), this
cell has department listed such as:
Electrical Dept
Plumbing Dept
Etc.

Now, I am looking at having another drop down list in cell A2 which gives me
the data based on first selection, for instance; if I choose Plumbing on A1,
list me only issues for plumbing in A2 such as:
Fitting
Pipe
Threads
Etc.

If the other department, list the others for this corresponding department.
I know this is possible in access but am not sure for excel. Maybe with VBA
code it code work in excel, too.

Thank you for any help/tip provided.
Adnan

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Debra Dalgleish shows how to create dependent lists:
http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Adnan wrote:

In cell A1, I have a drop down list (created by Validation feature), this
cell has department listed such as:
Electrical Dept
Plumbing Dept
Etc.

Now, I am looking at having another drop down list in cell A2 which gives me
the data based on first selection, for instance; if I choose Plumbing on A1,
list me only issues for plumbing in A2 such as:
Fitting
Pipe
Threads
Etc.

If the other department, list the others for this corresponding department.
I know this is possible in access but am not sure for excel. Maybe with VBA
code it code work in excel, too.

Thank you for any help/tip provided.
Adnan

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Dave Peterson

This is exactly what I needed. You guys are so nice and so helpful. Thank you
Pete, thank you Dave, you are very much appreciated.

Adnan
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"Adnan" wrote:

In cell A1, I have a drop down list (created by Validation feature), this
cell has department listed such as:
Electrical Dept
Plumbing Dept
Etc.

Now, I am looking at having another drop down list in cell A2 which gives me
the data based on first selection, for instance; if I choose Plumbing on A1,
list me only issues for plumbing in A2 such as:
Fitting
Pipe
Threads
Etc.

If the other department, list the others for this corresponding department.
I know this is possible in access but am not sure for excel. Maybe with VBA
code it code work in excel, too.

Thank you for any help/tip provided.
Adnan


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