• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Excel Tips and Tricks

  • About
  • Privacy Policy

How to validate an email addresses in Google Spreadsheet

August 25, 2011 by Ravi Leave a Comment

In Google Spreadsheet you can check whether the value entered is a proper email address by creating a data validation rule. This rule does a simple validation and checks for the @ symbol in the entered value. Let us say you have a column in your spreadsheet that needs to accept only email addresses, then you can do the following to add the validation.

Select the Column values, click the Data menu and select Validation from the menu list.

In the Data Validation window, select Text, Contains for the Criteria drop down and specify the value as @

And if you want to display a message to the user then type the message in Help text some thing like “Enter proper email address example aaaa@xxx.xxx”. Click on the Save button to save the changes.

Now when you enter a value in the email address column without the @ symbol then it would display the message as shown below.

Filed Under: Excel, Technical Tagged With: Contains, Data Validation, email address, Google Spreadsheet, Validate

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • How to increase number of worksheets Excel
  • A trick to flip a column upside down in Excel
  • Prevent users from adding new worksheet in Excel
  • Repeat action keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Office
  • How to import text file in Excel

Copyright 2020 © getexceltips.com