How do I disable a dropdownlist item

[stephankiss]

33 identical drop down lists on the same worksheet. When a user selects a particular item in a drop down list then that item should become unavailable in all other remaining drop down lists.

[Winon]

Hello stephankiss,

Welcome to the Forum.

Please see this Post: http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...down-menu.html

Note that it employs Named Ranges, and although it uses two Sheets, you could easily adapt it to one Sheet.

You may want to change the Formula in Column B on Sheet1 to:

=IFERROR(INDEX(_DVOriginal,SMALL(IF((COUNTIF(Sheet2!$D$1:$D$2,_DVOriginal)+COUNTIF(Sheet2!$F$1:$F$2,_DVOriginal)+COUNTIF(Sheet2!$H$1:$H$2,_DVOriginal))=0,ROW(INDEX(A:A,1):INDEX(A:A,ROWS(_DVOriginal)))),ROWS(B$2:B2))),"")

and enter it with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, since it is an array formula. After that you may drag it down as far as needed.

Remember to change the formula sheet references and ranges to suit.

Regards.

[stephankiss]

Hello Winon,

Thank you for solving my problem your help was very much appreciated.

[Winon]

Hello stephankiss,

Thank you for the feedback, and for adding to my Reputation.

Glad we could help.

If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED.

Regards.