如何将 IF 公式与 Excel 中的下拉列表结合使用？

Question

Here's what I am trying to achieve. If a student earns a grade 1* or a 1, they do not get a key. If they earn a grade 2 or 3, the teacher then chooses from these keys: A - Attendance B - Behaviour C - Classwork L - Lateness O - Organization H - Homework.

What I want to do is, create a drop-down with the options 1*,1,2,3. If the teacher selects 2 or 3, it will then provide another drop down with the keys(A,B,C,H,L,O). I know this can somehow be done using dependent drop downs but somehow this doesn't work for me.

What I have done so far: I have a column labelled "Grades" with a dropdown menu listing 1*,1,2,3. I then created another column with the label "key" and used the data validation method and the formula "=INDIRECT".

What happens then is that the "key" column doesnt give me a dropdown menu. It's just a blank cell.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Here is a workaround,

use a table, I use the name "tbl_gradechoose" for it. For every grade a column. Use the Datavalidation, choose List and as source the formula

=INDIRECT("tbl_gradechoose[" & A1 &"]")

Here shown in englisch Excel Version:

Here shown in the German Version in Excle: