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The Best Office Productivity Tools Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80% Now, you can add color to drop-down list, choose one method as you need. Then click OK, the drop-down list has been created as following shown: And in the Data Validation dialog box, click Settings tab, and choose List option from the Allow drop down list, and then click to select the list values that you want to use. Click Data > Data Validation > Data Validation, see screenshot:ģ. In this case, I select range A2:A6 to put the drop-down list, see screenshot:Ģ.

Create a list of data and select a range that you want to put the drop down list values into.

Method B Color coded drop down list with a handy tool-Colored Drop-down Listįor finishing this task, we need to create a drop down list first, please do as following steps:ġ. Method A Color coded drop down list with Conditional Formatting Are there any good suggestions to solve this? For instance, I have created a drop-down list of the fruit names, when I select Apple, I need the cell is colored with red automatically, and when I choose Orange, the cell can be colored with orange as following screenshot shown. In Excel, create a drop-down list can help you a lot, and sometimes, you need to color coded the drop down list values depending on the corresponding selected. How to add color to drop down list in Excel?

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