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.

When this field is used by itself, Analyze Data returns a unique count. Excel’s Analyze Data returns a lot of great information considering how easy it is to implement and use.