Excel's drop-down menus are useful for creating order forms and navigation for larger files like records of sales. The options in the menus are references to cells elsewhere on the spreadsheet.

Click the Home tab and choose Manage Rules from the Conditional Formatting drop-down in the Styles group. In Excel 2003, choose Conditional Formatting from the Format menu.

Data validation in Excel allows you to create drop-down menus right inside individual cells. You can also restrict the types of values entered into different cells.

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.

Here's a quick tip for creating a Microsoft Excel drop down list from another tab.