Dynamic drop-down lists in Google Sheets

Question

i want to know how to make dynamic drop down list in Google Sheets, e.g I have a list of continents in \"Continent\" column (data validation applied) and want to validate th

Answer 1

The way to do this without a script involves a helper list. Here are the steps:

• Create Named Ranges for Each of Your Lists
• Link a Column to the first dropdown using ARRAYFORMULA and INDIRECT
• Set data validation of the second dropdown to that entire column being populated by ARRAYFORMULA(INDIRECT())

You can see the working example here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Snn2ZpDTpb1I96ihsRHcUqvgsijiHPQNqqRD9bc-1_A/edit?usp=sharing