Clear Advanced Drop Down List in Excel

The Clear Advanced Drop-down List feature of Kutools for Excel is used to remove the advanced drop down lists which applied Kutools for Excel’s Multi-select Drop-own List, Drop-down List with Check Boxes or Searchable Drop-down List feature from selected cells, the active sheet or the active workbook.

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1. Apply this feature by selecting Kutools > Drop-down List > Clear Advanced Drop-down List.

2. In the Clear Advanced Drop-down List dialog, choose the working area you want in Clear section, then check the types of advanced drop-down list that you want to clear in Advanced Drop-down List section.

• Tick Multi-select Drop-down List checkbox, it will remove the drop-down list which applied Kutools’ Multi-select Drop-down lists from the working area, and leave the based drop-down list:
  

  

• Tick Drop-down List with Check Boxes checkbox, it will remove the drop-down lists which applied Kutools’ Drop-down List with Check Boxes from the working area, and leave the based drop-down list:
  

  

• Tick Searchable Down-down List checkbox, it will remove the drop-down lists which applied Kutools’ Searchable Drop-down List from the working area, and leave the based drop-down list:
  

  

3. After setting, click Ok. A dialog pops out to tell you the job is completed. If there is no advanced drop-down list to clear, it also pops up a dialog to tell you. Click OK to close.

Then the advanced drop-down lists have been cleared.

Notes

1. If you have set the working scope to current worksheet when you apply the advanced drop-down list, the Clear Advanced Drop-down List will not work when you choose Clear rules in selected cells option in the Clear Advanced Drop-down List dialog. In this case, you can choose Clear rules from active worksheet or Clear rules from active workbook.

2. If you have set the working scope to current workbook when you apply the advanced drop-down list, the Clear Advanced Drop-down List will not work when you choose Clear rules in selected cells option or Clear rules from active worksheet option in the Clear Advanced Drop-down List dialog. In this case, you only can choose Clear rules from active workbook.

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