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Old 02-02-04, 14:22
ben2001 ben2001 is offline
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Question combo box problem

i have a combo box in excel but i want to put some information in it from another sheet, however it wont work when i highlight the cells that i want, it will only enter the first row that i selected. how can i get around this?
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Old 02-02-04, 17:13
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Hi Ben,

If You use datavalidation or the combobox from the Forms toolbar then You need to create a named range and then assign the rangename as source for the control, like =MyRange

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Old 02-02-04, 18:25
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yeh thanx i just tried this but it will only copy the first row of information into the combo box
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Old 02-03-04, 04:18
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Hi Ben,

It sounds as You have Your list in a row and that the first value is only available in the combobox.

AFAIK it is by design and need either be solved with a list in a column (manually or refer to the original list and use the TRANSPOSE-function) or with VBA.

The Datavalidation can handle a list in a row.

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