Advanced dropdown - multiple words

u65646

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I'm having difficulty in creating a drop down menu thats dependant on the 1st drop down.

For example, I have a list of product lines, Regulatory Compliance, Anti-Fraud, Financial Custom, Financial Control.

I have a separate list of the items that relate to Regulatory Compliance, Anti-Fraud, Financial Custom, Financial Control.

For the product lines, I created a named range called product lines.

For the separate lists, I created a named range and named them Regulatory_Compliance and Anti_Fraud, Financial Custom and Financial Control.

After the drop down for Regulatory Compliance was selected. The other cell, I entered in the data validation prompt INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(B2," ","") and this does not give me the list of options from my separate list that relate to the Regulatory Compliance.

I know that the =indirect(b2) would work for example if the list was only 1 word cells.

Please can you advise what steps I need to do to help get the necessary results.
 

Excel Facts

Whats the difference between CONCAT and CONCATENATE?
The newer CONCAT function can reference a range of cells. =CONCATENATE(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) becomes =CONCAT(A1:A5)
How about something like
=INDIRECT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(B2,"-"," ")," ","_"))
 
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