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Dropdown entry seperator question for Excel XP?
I am using Office XP (2002) with all service packs applied
I have created a spreadsheet with any number of columns. I have added the dropdown feature (not sure of its exact name) on the column heading, so that I can easily select all entries in that column that have a specific value. - (A down Arrow has now appeared at the end of the column heading that I can click on to do this). Most of the column values are one entry e.g. FRED or JOE, so when I click on the arrow I can select all of the FRED or JOE entries. Some of the column values can be FRED and JOE however. I want a way to be able to enter FRED and JOE in one column cell, but when I click on the drop down, be able to select FRED and see all single FRED rows, plus the one that contains FRED (even if it contains something else) If I now look at the options from the Drop down Arrow, I have one for FRED, one for JOE and one for FRED,JOE. Is there a seperation character, that I can use to enable me to do this, I have tried commas, colons etc. Please can you help me? |
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Hi,
It sounds like you using autofilter so create a custom filter like this:- Click the down arrow on you column a select custom. In the dropdown select 'Begins with' and enter Joe Click OR In the other dropdown select 'Begins with' and enter Fred Click Ok Mike "Rich" wrote: I am using Office XP (2002) with all service packs applied I have created a spreadsheet with any number of columns. I have added the dropdown feature (not sure of its exact name) on the column heading, so that I can easily select all entries in that column that have a specific value. - (A down Arrow has now appeared at the end of the column heading that I can click on to do this). Most of the column values are one entry e.g. FRED or JOE, so when I click on the arrow I can select all of the FRED or JOE entries. Some of the column values can be FRED and JOE however. I want a way to be able to enter FRED and JOE in one column cell, but when I click on the drop down, be able to select FRED and see all single FRED rows, plus the one that contains FRED (even if it contains something else) If I now look at the options from the Drop down Arrow, I have one for FRED, one for JOE and one for FRED,JOE. Is there a seperation character, that I can use to enable me to do this, I have tried commas, colons etc. Please can you help me? |
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Mike,
Thanks for the reply that was useful. Problem is that what I also need to do is use the list that it shows on the dropdown to also establish what the next entry should be.. e.g If cell 1 contains G1, cell 2 contains G2, cell 3 contains G3,G5 and cell 4 contains G4, I was hoping to use the dropdown list to easily identify that in the next cell i needed to add G6. At present I cant easily see that, I hope that that makes sense, My list is huge, so its not easy to show you how many entries there are in this explanation? "Mike H" wrote: Hi, It sounds like you using autofilter so create a custom filter like this:- Click the down arrow on you column a select custom. In the dropdown select 'Begins with' and enter Joe Click OR In the other dropdown select 'Begins with' and enter Fred Click Ok Mike "Rich" wrote: I am using Office XP (2002) with all service packs applied I have created a spreadsheet with any number of columns. I have added the dropdown feature (not sure of its exact name) on the column heading, so that I can easily select all entries in that column that have a specific value. - (A down Arrow has now appeared at the end of the column heading that I can click on to do this). Most of the column values are one entry e.g. FRED or JOE, so when I click on the arrow I can select all of the FRED or JOE entries. Some of the column values can be FRED and JOE however. I want a way to be able to enter FRED and JOE in one column cell, but when I click on the drop down, be able to select FRED and see all single FRED rows, plus the one that contains FRED (even if it contains something else) If I now look at the options from the Drop down Arrow, I have one for FRED, one for JOE and one for FRED,JOE. Is there a seperation character, that I can use to enable me to do this, I have tried commas, colons etc. Please can you help me? |
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