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Excel | Data validation exercise | Monthly report - Validation
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Software ==> | Excel (145 exercises) |
Version ==> | Excel 2010 and later |
Topic ==> | Data validation (6 exercises) |
Level ==> | Relatively easy |
Courses ==> | Excel Business Modelling / Excel Intermediate |
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Create a new worksheet with a list of possible month choices. Give the block of cells a range name.

Here we have used the name MONTHS
Apply validation to cell B2 so that when you click on the cell you see and input message telling you what you can do:

Input messages can look messy
Extend the validation so that when a user chooses a month that doesn't exist, they see this message:

This should have been obvious anyway!
Save the file with the same name, and then close it down.