create 3 drop down menus in Excel, each relating to previous

I need to create 3 different drop menus, each has to relate the previous data:
Eg., column A has 4 pieces of data,
column B has 16 pieces of data, but only certain data refers back to one of
the data elements in the column A.

So if I choose the 1st data element in Colum. A, rather than all 16 data
elements in Colum. B showing, it should only show what directly corresponds
to the 1st data element in Colum. A.

Thanks for any help...

Take a look at:

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

HTH

"ExcelDropDownQ" wrote:

> I need to create 3 different drop menus, each has to relate the previous data:
> Eg., column A has 4 pieces of data,
> column B has 16 pieces of data, but only certain data refers back to one of
> the data elements in the column A.
>
> So if I choose the 1st data element in Colum. A, rather than all 16 data
> elements in Colum. B showing, it should only show what directly corresponds
> to the 1st data element in Colum. A.
>
> Thanks for any help...

I have done this in the past, though I'm interested in seeing others
approaches....

I created "tables" using Insert/Name/Define for each of the lists and the
name asssigned to each table had a name in it from the previoius column. In
my case, Column A contained Organization names (there were 8 possible) so I
have a table Table_Organizations (for illustration assume Org1, Org2,
Org3,....Org8) which defined all 8. I then create a Tables witht the list of
employees in each organziation and defined its range via a
Insert/Name/Define and named it Table_Org1_Employees.

With the above in place, I then set up the data for validation for the drop
down for employees to key off of what specified in the column for the
organization. The equation I used in the Data Validation was:

=INDIRECT(CONCATENATE("Table_",INDIRECT(CONCATENATE("$a$",ROW())),"_Employees"))

Sorry for the limited details - time is the issue - hope this is sufficient
to get you going in the right direction.


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>I need to create 3 different drop menus, each has to relate the previous
>data:
> Eg., column A has 4 pieces of data,
> column B has 16 pieces of data, but only certain data refers back to one
> of
> the data elements in the column A.
>
> So if I choose the 1st data element in Colum. A, rather than all 16 data
> elements in Colum. B showing, it should only show what directly
> corresponds
> to the 1st data element in Colum. A.
>
> Thanks for any help...