Automating Data Entry with Macros To fully automate your data entry form, you can use Excel’s built-in macro functionality. Macros allow you to record a series of actions and then replay them ...

To add the Forms command to your QAT, go to the QAT and click the drop-down arrow to open the customize menu. Select More Commands to open the Excel Options dialog box.

Learn how to create a drop-down list in Excel without or with color using conditional formatting and data validation rules.

Now that your two-way lookup is complete, you could go one step further by adding a drop-down list to the cells containing the lookup values to speed up the data retrieval process.