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I am trying to create a dynamic drop down list that hides used Items for my staff.

For example: I have my data (staff names) on the cells M6:M63 (58 names). So i want to create a dynamic drop list for the cells A6:A20 & C6:C20.

On O6 cell i am trying to create a function

=FILTER(M6:M63;COUNTIF(A6:A20;M6:M63)=0) and work fine

but when I try to enclude C6:C20 as well

=FILTER(M6:M63;COUNTIF(A6:A20;C6:C20;M6:M63)=0)

i get the following message: "You've entered too many arguments for this function"

Any help please?

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Hi Michalis,

Use this formula in cell O6 instead:

=UNIQUE(VSTACK(A6:A20,C6:C20,E6:E20,G6:G20,I6:I20,M6:M63),,TRUE)

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@Mynda: is VSTACK reserved to Office 365? My Office 2021 does not recognize VSTACK()

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The answer is here.
https://support.microsoft.com/.....c10d795a9c

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Hi, @Mynda Treacy

Thank you for your answer in a such sort notice. I have to apologize because i forgot to mention that I use Excel 2021 and not 365, so when I try your suggetion i get an error.

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In that case I would rearrange the data so that it is already stacked vertically because there is no easy way to stack it in a formula in earlier versions of Excel.

You should always store your data in a tabular format (https://www.myonlinetraininghu.....ata-format) because then you can easily summarise it with the built in Excel tools.

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