How To Create A Drop Down List In Google Sheets

0:00 Here's how to create a drop down list in Google Sheets. This is a drop down list of every month of the year, but let's start it from scratch as if you don't have it in your sheet. On the column you want that drop down list to be, right click. We're going to click drop down. Here, you can type in every month. Just keep hitting enter. And December. Here you go. We can also color code this. We can change January to blue, even up through March, and maybe for spring we make it a little bit yellow, and for summer months we make it orange, actually let's make them red in summer and orange in autumn. And once we're done with that list we can click done, and over here we have our selection of months that are color coded. I'm going to show you one more way to do this that I think How to Merge Cells in Google Sheets Are Google Sheets sexy now? Dropdown Chips might do the trick! Big Year - a Whole Year in One Google Sheets Tab Sheet Styles

0:46 is even more interesting. If we create a new sheet called settings and put the months here, January, and there we go. We got all the months already listed here. Let's create a new dropdown , drop down. And instead of a dropdown , we're gonna select criteria dropdown from a range . Here we're gonna say settings A to colon A. That's the settings, A column A, two to 13. We can say A 13 here if we want. And you notice they all show up here automatically, so we don't have to type in all of these months. But we also can color code these if we want. And that's another way to make a drop down list in Google Sheets. You can do a drop down with all the data in that drop down or a drop Switch Months Menu - Design a Better Dashboard Part 4 Are Google Sheets sexy now? Dropdown Chips might do the trick! How to Filter View by Month for Dashboards in Google Sheets

1:35 down from a range and include the text from a range like settings where we may want to edit this later on. You can change these from English to Spanish or some other text. Or maybe you have like, sales people and change them over. That's Often, and you want to change their names here in the selection instead of having to go to each of these dropdowns and edit this. That's how to make a dropdown list in Google Sheets . How To Select an Image based on Text in a Dropdown Menu Are Google Sheets sexy now? Dropdown Chips might do the trick! How to Change Dropdown Colors and Gray Out Rows in Google Sheets with Apps Script