Drop Down Menus

[AllisonCorey]

Hi everyone,

My boss wants me to make an order form in Excel. I have the drop-down menus all in place, but one of the menus has a selection that must default another menu to a specific selection.

E.G: We offer wood furniture and one of the stain colours is only available in cedar, so if a customer chooses the Caramel stain, the wood menu must default to cedar. Is there a way to do this, and if so, what formula or rule would I use?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Perpa]

Allison,
Welcome to the Forum.

From what you have described it sounds like you need 'Dependent Drop-down Lists'.
I Googled that and several links came up. Below are a few of those links that will show you how to create dependent drop down lists.
Perpa

Dependent Drop-down Lists
http://www.excel-easy.com/examples/dependent-drop-down-lists.html

Create Dependent Drop Down Lists
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Making a cascading (dependent) Excel drop down list
https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2014/09/30/dependent-cascading-dropdown-lists-excel/

 

[mumps]

In which column are the stain colours and in which column is the wood drop down?

 

[AllisonCorey]

In which column are the stain colours and in which column is the wood drop down?

Hi Mumps,

The wood drop down and stain colour are both in the same column, but different rows.

 

[mumps]

Sorry. I should have asked before. In which rows or cells are the two drop down menus and I need the column letter as well