I have an Excel (2013) sheet with 5 cells which each have an identical dropdown (List Data Validation). This dropdown list has exactly 5 values (A, B, C, D, E) as well. Is there any way (preferably without having to get into VB) to make the cell values chosen (and ideally choosable) mutually exclusive, e.g., B C E D A would be a valid combination, B B E D A would not.
For example, if these are the five cells:
When I use "conventional" validation (using the range A5:A9
which I named validRange
), you see that the pulldown menu shows all five values, even though some of these values were already used. What I would like to see is something like this:
Where the pulldown menu includes only the values that were not yet used. Can anyone help me figure out how to create a validation range that includes only "unused" cells (like the "Clean Range" in my spreadsheet below)?