Validation Lists

[lgc85]

Need Help!!

I am trying to produce 3 drop down validation lists, all dependant on one another.

Example Data:

Region Area Store
A AA 1
A AA 2
A AB 3
A AB 4
B BA 5
B BA 6
B BB 7
B BB 8
C CA 9
C CA 10
C CB 11
C CB 12


I need 3 drop down boxes, the first showing All the individual regions, the second showing the individual areas (but dependent on the first box, i.e. if the in the first box Region A is select then box 2 should only show the Areas in that Region (AA and AB), and the third box showing stores, but dependent on what is entered in either box 1 or box 2. I can get this to work fine using the indirect formula in data validation, but I don't know how I can get this to work when box 1 has a value, but box 2 doesnt, I want to be able to select all the stores but only for a particular region.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Also at the moment I have just being using named ranges to do this, is there a better way? can i there be validation that is based on a lookup from what's enterred in box 1?

[royUK]

Create Named Ranges for each category then use the INDIRECT Function.

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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[Bob Phillips]

Try this attempt