

STEP 6: Select the range containing the custom list. STEP 5: In the Custom List dialog box, select the small arrow up button. STEP 4: Under the General section, click on the Edit Custom List button. STEP 3: In the Excel Options dialog box, select Advanced.

STEP 2: Select Options from the left panel. You can easily import a custom list from another worksheet. Next up is a demonstration of how to make a list in Excel by importing data from another worksheet.

STEP 9: Release and you will see it get auto-populated to zeta, which is based on our Custom List created in Step 8 STEP 8: From that cell, click the lower right corner and drag it to the next 5 cells to the right STEP 7: Now let’s go back into our Excel workbook to see our new Custom List in action. In our screenshot below, we added the values of the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, and so on) STEP 5: You can create & add your own Custom List under the List entries section.Ĭlick on NEW LIST under the Custom Lists area and then manually enter your list, entering one entry per line: This indicated that it is a default Excel Custom List. If you click on a Custom List, you will see under List entries that it is greyed out and you cannot make any changes. Here you can see the built-in default Excel lists of the calendar months and the days. STEP 4: Scroll all the way down and under the General section, click Edit Custom Lists. Let us go straight into the Options in Excel to view how it’s being done, and how you can create your own Custom List: You can also manually add new values in the Custom List box and re-use them whenever you wish to. STEP 3: Release and you will see it get auto-populated to July (The succeeding months after February) STEP 2: From that first cell, click the lower right corner and drag it to the next 5 cells to the right To demonstrate the power of Excel’s Custom Lists, we’ll explore what’s currently in Excel’s memory as a default list: There are some lists that are already stored in Excel like days of the week and months in a year. At first, it might seem like magic how Excel does this!
