Microsoft Excel can save you time in lots of little ways, like adding a drop-down list to cells so that only pre-written text can be entered.

Drop-down lists in Excel let you create a list of valid choices that you can select for a given field. We'll show you how to use tables, named ranges, formulas, data validation, and table styles.

Learn how to create, delete & use a Custom List in Excel. If your work requires typing specific lists repeatedly, you can create Custom Lists to save your time. Learn how!

Here's how to create a pivot table in Excel to slice and dice your data, letting you perform in-depth analyses and spot important trends.

Figure A We’ll create two Excel drop down lists based on this simple data set. We need two Excel drop down lists. The first Excel drop down list will set the condition, the region.