How to create a drop down list in Google Sheets - Data Validation function

Published: 05 March 2019
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In this video, you will learn how to create a drop down list in Google Sheets, and unify the values in your database using Data Validation function.
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When creating a new database, you want users to see an exact Google Sheets drop down list of options to choose from. This can be a list of shops in your chain, products, locations, etc. And data validation tools help a lot here.

Today we will learn function basics of Google Sheets Data Validation:
🔹 How to apply data validation
🔹 How to validate values based on a list of items
🔹 How to validate values based on a dynamic range in the sheet
🔹 Additional data validation options (based on a date, text, custom formula)
🔹 How to use Google Sheets Checkbox feature
🔹 How to prevent adding incorrect values using data validation “reject input”

We will also present few helpful Google Sheets shortcuts to select the correct ranges when applying data validation.

Watch our next video about creating dependent dropdown in Google Sheets using data validation and FILTER function.

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