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Frank Kabel Frank Kabel is offline
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Default data validation problem

Hi
a solution for inserting rows with formulas:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/insrtrow.htm

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What I need to be able to do is have a dropdown in the

cells in a row
where you can either select the cell value to be set

as "N/A" OR set
the cell to be a given formula. Is this possible?

basically I have 5 columns which may need to have a

formula in but they
will not all want the formula for every row, some rows

will need to be
set to N/A. The problem then is that when someone

inserts a new row
underneath, I am guessing excel will not put the formulas

into all
those 5 columns because the cell above it might have been

set to N/A,
meaning the users are going to have to keep trying to

copy and paste
formulas into the new row.

So I either need a way for the user to simply select N/A

OR select the
formula for each of those cells from a dropdown, or i

need to
automatically put the formula into those 5 columns every

time a new row
is inserted, and then the users can overwrite it with N/A

if needed, so
they wont have to copy and paste anything.

Anyone know if any of this is possible? if not whats the

easiest way to
do it? I need to make it quick and easy for people to

enter new rows
without having to muck about copying formulas.


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