Hi! I was just wondering if anybody knows of a character that comes AFTER z
in the sorting order?

Basically, I have a name defined list of members of staff, which I use as a
dropdown menu for entering data into certain fields. However, we take on new
staff all the time, and so I will need to be adding names to that list all
the time. Because this group is also used as a lookup vector, it needs to be
in alphabetical order too (and I'd prefer it that way anyway).

I did look at the "Update Multiple Validation Lists" file at
http://www.contextures.com/excelfiles.html
but I'm afraid I am a novice when it comes to macros, and couldn't manage to
alter the code to match the sheet names, columns etc... in my own workbook (I
don't have a clue which parameters to alter or how!).

So my basic method was that if I inserted new cells into the name defined
range, then the cells that the name refers to should expand accordingly. E.g.
if cells A1:A2 are named "list", I click on A2 and choose insert to put a new
cell between the two, then my "refers to" part on the define name menu
automatically changes from A1:A2 to A1:A3.

The problem is this - I need to make sure that there is ALWAYS one cell
below where I am inserting the new one, to make sure the range expands. If my
last entry was "Young", and I then needed to add a "Zackyros", the new cell
comes at the end, after the last cell, and I then need to manually go back to
re-define the named range.

I was hoping to add a "dummy" entry to the bottom of the list to ensure this
doesn't happen, e.g.
** END OF LIST **
but all the symbols I try come BEFORE alphabetical characters. I can't find
any that come after Z. If worst comes to the worst I could use
zzzz END OF LIST zzzz
but I thought it would be worth asking first.

Can anyone solve the riddle?
Many thanks in advance, Neil Goldwasser.