How to use Combo Box (Form Control)

Combo Box is one of the ways to create drop down menu in Excel. More about drop down menus is on https://excel-example.com/other-tutorial/how-to-create-drop-down-menu-in-excel-worksheet.
In this example we create a simple Order Form that calculates final prize. Combo boxes will be used for choosing goods. Here is simple list that will be source for Order Form.
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How to create drop down menu in Excel worksheet

There are two ways how to insert drop down menu to the sheet. You can use either Data Validation – List or Form Control – Combo Box. Both have their advantages.

Example

The following table represents a simple order form. The task is to create a drop-down menu for selecting the method of payment in the cell E3. Method can be VISA, MASTERCARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS.

Simple order form

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Selecting cells using keyboard shortcuts

This is a list of some shortcuts I consider useful. If you have some other, please leave comment. Continue reading “Selecting cells using keyboard shortcuts” »

Automatic change in the chart according to the current date

Let’s have a list of some values. The values are taken every day. The task is to create chart showing only last 5 days from today. Charts must be updated automatically.

Important: I wrote this on 4.7.2012, so for this example is 4.7.2012 the current date.

List of values by date
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Automatic change of data source in a pivot table

There is a problem with Pivot Table. When you add new row or column to source table, the pivot table won’t expand range. You must do it manually using menu “Change Data Source”. So this is the question, how can I do it automatically? Continue reading “Automatic change of data source in a pivot table” »

How to hide error values

In Excel table may occur some error values like #DIV/0, #N/A … But it does not necessarily mean an error in a formula. It could mean that there is some unfilled value or some value is not in table and so on. In this cases is better display nothing or some specific word or number instead of error value.  I have prepared table containing #DIV/0 values and two ways how to solve it. The first is using formula and the second is made by conditional formatting.

Table with error values

The bottom table have simple formula for calculating percentage of items revenue. For example in B9 is formula =B2/B$6. So, when cells in the top table is empty, result of formula is #DIV/0. Continue reading “How to hide error values” »

How to quickly lock (protect) all of the cells containing formula

There are many values and formulas on the sheet. We want to protect all formulas against overwriting. Other cells must remain unlocked for entry. We don’t need to manually go through cell by cell.

This is a table with some formulas:

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Average with multiple conditions

There is problem with average for some specific values in a table. We need to make average of the items that meet several criteria. Following table represents data of some worldwide company. You can see branch offices in the cities and number of their new customers per each month and year.

Average with multiple conditions example

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Average with condition

There is a problem with average for some specific value in a table. Following table represents data of some worldwide company. You can see branch offices in the cities and number of their new customers per each month.

Average with condition example

How to do average for specific items (London, Prague and Paris)? Continue reading “Average with condition” »

Address of the first empty cell in a row

In some cases it is useful to know the address of the first empty cell in a row. This is a way to do this without macros. Write the following formula and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. Excel adds braces { } and saves it as array formula.

=ADDRESS(row number,COLUMN(INDEX(firstCell:lastCell,1,MATCH(TRUE,LEN(firstCell:lastCell)=0,0)))) Continue reading “Address of the first empty cell in a row” »

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