Dynamically Changing Column

[kelfer]

Hello, I have been making a dashboard for investing analysis in excel. What I want to do is have a drop down menu at the top lets say A1. The three options are Income statement, Balance Sheet, & Cash Flow. Then when you choose one, all the labels of that statement dynamically populate the rows in that column. While trying to figure this out I also learned there is a limit to drop down cells as well. The combined statements come out to 110 rows with each cell containing a string with most having up to 35 characters. So my issue is I have never worked with large amounts of strings like this in excel before. How would I go about dong this?

 

[kaushik03]

Hi Kelfer,


First of all welcome to Chandoo's website Excel forums. Thank you for your joining us and glad to have you here.


As a starting point I'd recommend you to read the three first green sticky topics at this forums main page. There you'll find general guidelines about how this site and community operates (introducing yourself, posting files, netiquette rules, and so on).


Among them you're prompted to perform searches within this site before posting, because maybe your question had been answered yet.


Feel free to play with different keywords so as to be led thru a wide variety of articles and posts, and if you don't find anything that solves your problem or guides you towards a solution, you'll always be welcome back here. Tell us what you've done, consider uploading a sample file as recommended, and somebody surely will read your post and help you.


Now regarding your question, I am not very clear about your requirement. Are you facing problem w.r.t. character limit in drop down cell?


However, please consider uploading your sample file here so that it helps us to understand the query bit more clearly.

http://chandoo.org/forums/topic/posting-a-sample-workbook


Regards,

Kaushik