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How to auto update drop down list in Excel?

Update Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Facebook Page: on twitter: https://twitter.com/mj1111983. Above may be extensive processing if database rows and Excel cells are large. The best option is simply to use Access for all data entry/management and avoid the update needs. Since Excel is a flatfile, consider using it as the end use application and Access as central data repository. Hi, I would like to update my table by Patch function, so if someone clicks on the item, it should be an update with a click date transferred to Excel. I have the following issue (you can see it on a screen). It is written: The data source is either Read-Only or has no primary key. In Excel, we usually create a drop down list for some daily work. In default, you can add new data in a cell among the range of original data, then the relative drop down list will be auto updated. But if you add new data in the cell below the original data range, the relative drop down list cannot be updated.

In Excel, we usually create a drop down list for some daily work. In default, you can add new data in a cell among the range of original data, then the relative drop down list will be auto updated. But if you add new data in the cell below the original data range, the relative drop down list cannot be updated. Here I will tell you a good way to auto update the drop down list when adding new data to the original data.
Auto update drop down list

Auto update drop down list

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1. Select a cell you want to put the drop down list, and click Data > Data Validation > Data Validation. See screenshot:

2. In the Data Validation dialog, click Setting tab, and select List from Allow list, then type =OFFSET($A$2,0,0,COUNTA(A:A)-1) into the Source text box. See screenshot:

Tip: In the above formula, A2 is the first cell of the data range you want to create a drop down list with, and A: A is the column original data locate.

3. Click OK. Now an auto-updated drop down list is created. And when you add new data to the original data range, the drop down list updates at the meanwhile.

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We will take a look at how to add/update excel data into your SharePoint List using Power Automate

Note: To use Excel Online Connector of Power Automate, please make sure your that your excel data needs is in table layout

This is the glimpse of how your Flow will look like 😊

Let’s Start Creating it.

  1. Schedule/Automate your flow using schedule connector
  2. Use, List rows present in a table connector, add location of excel file details along with the table you want to move into your SharePoint List

Fig 1.1

  • You will get your excel data in the form of an array, So, in the next step add apply to each condition wherein you will provide value of the list rows as an output from previous step as shown in the Fig 1.2

Fig 1.2

  • Now, as we are creating a flow to update and add, we will look into the site list whether we have an item, if not create a new one
  • So, use SharePoint Get items connector and then add this expression in your condition (This expression checks the length of an item in your list)

Expression: length(outputs(‘Get_items’)?[‘body/value’])

  • In the condition add this expression and check if this is not equal to ‘0’
  • If the length is not equal to ‘0’ – We will update SharePoint Item
  • If the length is equal to ‘0’ – We will Create a SharePoint Item
  • As shown in the Fig. 1.3

Fig 1.3

  • Now, you can test the flow, your Excel data will be created into your SharePoint List, also update your content into excel table data test your flow and boom you will get the item updated into your SharePoint list.

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