How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

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This tutorial demonstrates how to clear data validation in Excel and Google Sheets.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

If you already have data validation set up in your worksheet, you can easily edit or remove the rules should your requirements change.

Remove Data Validation

Selected Range

    1. Select the range of cells where the data validation is set.
    2. In the Ribbon, select Data > Data Tools > Data Validation > Data Validation.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

  1. Click the Clear All button, and then click OK.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

There are now no data validation rules in the selected cells.

Entire Worksheet

If you have more than one data validation in your worksheet, you can remove them all at once.

  1. Select the entire worksheet by clicking in the select all

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

  1. In the Ribbon, select Data > Data Tools > Data Validation > Data Validation.
  2. A warning message – that there is more than one type of data validation in the selected cell – pops up. Click OK to erase the validation and continue.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

  1. You can then just click OK to clear the validation without setting new validation.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

Entire Workbook

There isn’t a built-in function to remove data validation from a whole sheet at once; you have to click on each tab and follow Steps 1–4 above. However, it is possible to write a VBA loop that cycles through your sheets and changes the data validation settings in each.

Remove Data Validation in Google Sheets

  1. Highlight the cells that contains the validation in your Google sheet, and then, in the Menu, select Data > Data Validation.
  2. Click Remove Validation.

How do I remove a validation rule in Excel?

To remove data validation from the entire Google sheet, follow the Excel steps shown above.

How do you clear validation rules?

How to remove data validation in Excel.
Select the cell(s) with data validation..
On the Data tab, click the Data Validation button..
On the Settings tab, click the Clear All button, and then click OK..

How do I remove data validation from a field?

Click the control whose data validation you want to remove. On the Format menu, click Data Validation. In the Data Validation dialog box, click the condition that you want to remove, and then click Remove.

How do I remove a validation circle?

Hide validation circles To remove the circle from a single cell, enter valid data in the cell. On the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click the arrow next to Data Validation, and then click Clear Validation Circles.