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Creating a list of items which are repeated throughout spreadsheet

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    Creating a list of items which are repeated throughout spreadsheet

    I am attempting to create a workbook which will contain transactional data organized by month. Each month is contained in a separate tab within the same worksheet. I am adding a 'category' defining the purpose of each transaction. For the purpose of the spreadsheet, these categories should be reproduceable for the purpose of aggregating information by category. There are about 30 unique categories.

    How can I get Excel to 'remember' these categories so I don't need to retype them every time I add transactions? Superficially, it appears as though characters are 'remembered' only if they have been entered on a particular sheet - eg, there is no 'cross memory' of entries from other sheets.

    This is strange. Any clues as to how to accomplish this?

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    Re: Creating a list of items which are repeated throughout spreadsheet

    Store all the values (the Category names) in another sheet. Then, use data validation to create a listbox. This way, you won't have to remember the categories, but they won't be auto-filled for you.

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    Re: Creating a list of items which are repeated throughout spreadsheet

    That doesn't really help, as I want to have them autofilled, to ensure that the entries are uniform across the spreadsheet.

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    Re: Creating a list of items which are repeated throughout spreadsheet

    You could group all the sheets together, then add the relevant list to the columns you wanted it in and it will appear on all the sheets. You could then hide the rows at the top of the columns where the 'remembered' data is. Not the most elegant solution, but it gets you where you want to go.

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