Excel grays out menu commands for unavailable features or functions. To unlock the grayed-out menus, first review the most common causes, then take the steps necessary make the menu active. By default ...

As an Excel pro, I could use the old Excel 2003 menus with my eyes closed. I knew where commands were located. I knew the Alt shortcut keys for the commands that I used frequently. Alt+E+S+V was Edit, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Data validation in Excel allows you to create drop-down menus right inside individual cells. You can also restrict the types of values entered into different cells.