Question

Assuming dataset looks like

Country Region  Product UK  North   fdhlw46 UK  North   fdhlw47 UK  North   fdhlw48 UK  North   fdhlw49 UK  North   fdhlw50 UK  South   fdhlw51 UK  South   fdhlw52 UK  South   fdhlw53 UK  South   fdhlw54 UK  South   fdhlw55 UK  South   fdhlw56 UK  South   fdhlw57 UK  West    fdhlw58 UK  West    fdhlw59 UK  West    fdhlw60 UK  London  fdhlw61 UK  London  fdhlw62 USA New York    fdhlw63 USA New York    fdhlw64 USA New York    fdhlw65 USA New York    fdhlw66 USA Chicago fdhlw67 USA Chicago fdhlw68 USA Chicago fdhlw69 USA Chicago fdhlw70 USA LA  fdhlw71 USA LA  fdhlw72 USA LA  fdhlw73 USA LA  fdhlw74 USA LA  fdhlw75 

How can I get cascading dropdowns/picklists in excel where the users selects, the country, which then narrows down to region and finally product?

So far all I have is a range called ‘country’ which I can then ‘data – validation – source: = country’, but this only gives me the first value, and it doesn’t strip duplicates

Answer 1

http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal13.html

This approach does mean defining a unique set of values for each grouping, but this is trivial.

Thanks for the other ideas.