Comments on: List Custom Lists

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:54:00 +0000

Hi Sam,

Those are cool - how did you find them??

Alan.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:33:00 +0000

I have a shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+C) which copies selected range of cells to a custom list.

There are some custom list which are hidden somewhere withing Excel and dont get listed and cant be deleted

Eg
Q1 - Drag Down gives Q2..Q4
1st - Drag Down gives 2nd, 3rd etc

By: Charles Hall

Charles Hall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:00 +0000

I haven’t used them in a while, but I believe they were useful in providing a way to sort in non-A-Z or Z-A order without having to prepend a number.

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:23:00 +0000

I use custom lists extensively, I love them. I have loads of code to add custom lists dynamically and then sort by that custom list.

I've even got a list of all of the US states which I use a lot for test data.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:16:00 +0000

I don’t get the lack of love for the shortened weekdays, I use this list all the time.

Lists can be very handy once you get used to them, in the past I’ve used them for listing document storage locations, pipeline references, hydraulic tool part numbers and many more. In this role however, the only other list I have is the names of our 12 teams on site. I probably use this a couple of times a week. When anyone* sees it in action it all gets a bit Arthur C Clarke (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”). Helps reinforce my guru status roun’ these here parts

* Non Excel blog readers, that is!

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:33:00 +0000

Ahh, but there's so many other things we should be able to do in excel.