{"id":1268,"date":"2015-05-25T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2020-06-05T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:28:09","slug":"index-function-with-data-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/index-function-with-data-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"INDEX Function with Data Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make the INDEX function in Excel interactive we can add a Data Validation drop down list.<\/p>\n<p>By referencing the second argument in the INDEX function &#8211; the <em>Row Number<\/em> &#8211; to a data validation list, will allow a user to choose the <em>nth<\/em> position of a list and return their respective metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Say, for example, we had a list of Top 10 customers with their respective Sales and Units sold.\u00a0 A user can choose a number from the drop down list and return the customer name, their sales and units sold &#8211; all with the power of the INDEX function.<\/p>\n<p>See how this is achieved in the below animated gif.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0O0siGE2eo?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Index_Interactive-List.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download workbook<\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">Index_Interactive-List.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make the INDEX function in Excel interactive we can add a Data Validation drop down list. By referencing the second argument in the INDEX function &#8211; the Row Number &#8211; to a data validation list, will allow a user to choose the nth position of a list and return their respective metrics. Say, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11,3,277],"tags":[43,78,79],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}