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    Conditional Data Validation

    Hey guys I have a list of items and I need someone to go through them assigning a building number, level and location to each of them. I am using drop down menus, the first choice is building and has the following options:

    B1
    B2
    B3
    B4A
    B4B
    B5
    B7

    Depending on the option selected there maybe different locations, i.e. B1 has the following available locations:

    1-4
    4-16
    MER
    ALL
    KIT

    Whereas B7 only has:
    ALL

    The third column, level, operates in a similar way.

    Any ideas how to accomplish this so that I do not have to show all values?
    Last edited by ChrisMattock; 01-06-2009 at 12:14 PM.

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    have a read through here:

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

    A fairly well known link when it comes to dependent lists...

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    have a look here
    http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html
    or the link above as its exactly the same lol

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    Hey guys that is awesome and helps me do the first one, but the second set of data also uses the building number, and now I have defined Names for each of the buildings already.

    EDIT: Ok, so based on the link you gave me I just suffixed the names of the second set of data with an L, and then the corresponding cell has the Validation =INDIRECT(A11 & "L")

    Works great. +rep to you both.

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