2012-03-20

Excel: Data validation; how to achieve case sensitive?

I have been using data validation in excel for some worksheets where I use the columns as inputs for a formula at the end of the row.

But I was not aware that it is not case sensitive, i.e. all the entries in the second worksheet like WAN do not take effect. A user can type wan and then continue.

To achieve case sensitivity you have to actually put all possible entries into the dialog of the data-validation->source as a comma separated list.

Source    WAN,LAN,CAN,MAN...



A very good resource is also http://www.contextures.com/xldataval01.html

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