Microsoft Excel: How to Remove a Drop-Down List. Excel's drop-down menus are useful for creating order forms and navigation for larger files like records of sales.

Microsoft Excel can save you time in lots of little ways, like adding a drop-down list to cells so that only pre-written text can be entered.

Drop-down lists in Excel let you create a list of valid choices that you can select for a given field. We'll show you how to use tables, named ranges, formulas, data validation, and table styles.