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what is the way to get dependent drop down list in Excel?(Ex: I have two drop down lists.One drop down contains Countries and second drop down contains states. So if i select "India" as country in first drop down then i want to see only that particular selected country states under second drop down).Please help me on this. Thanks in advance.

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Mr. Sharma, if you are aware of how to create a custom list then use indirect function on list formula box to create a dependency list.
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Hi Sharma, Use Data Validation and Named Ranges to do this. In column A enter country names. In Column B enter state name of first country, Column C state names of second country and so on. Define range for the country name with the state list. Now using Data Validation, create drop down...
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Hi Sharma, Use Data Validation and Named Ranges to do this. In column A enter country names. In Column B enter state name of first country, Column C state names of second country and so on. Define range for the country name with the state list. Now using Data Validation, create drop down list in a column and in the next column use data validation and enter formula "=Indirect(Country Cell name)". Now dependent drop down list is created read less
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Easy way is, create two columns, one for countries and other for states. Let's say you have 3 countries. Go to Name Manager and type the name of first country followed by 1 after it (like India1) and select the range as the cells with that country's States. Repeat this for other two countries. Now coming...
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Easy way is, create two columns, one for countries and other for states. Let's say you have 3 countries. Go to Name Manager and type the name of first country followed by 1 after it (like India1) and select the range as the cells with that country's States. Repeat this for other two countries. Now coming to drop down, presuming this as simple cell validation, in first drop down, input the list as 3 countries. In second drop down, in list section put this formula,=if($A$="India",India1,if($A$="USA",USA1,"Others")) Now u select the cell validation in A1 as India and second drop down will show only States for India read less
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