Microsoft's old standby spreadsheet app, Excel, has a new trick for importing lots of data from hard copies quickly. It just takes a few steps to use.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to populate a dropdown with data on another sheet. I’m using Microsoft 365 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use older .xlsx versions.

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