You could set the value of the DV cell to Today, this will force it.

Interestingly, you couldn't do that from the worksheet if that date is not
in the list, but you can from VBA.

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"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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I don't believe you have any control of the list box created by a
Data Validation list.


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"JMay" wrote in message
news:Zfmuc.2922$Tw.153@lakeread06...
Using Data Validation I have a combo box with a list
=payperiods (which are
1/9/04
1/23/04
2/6/04
2/20/04
3/5/04...
5/28/04
6/11/04...
12/24/04

Here in the May/June time of the year, I'd like to have when
the employee
clicks
on the DownArrow of the Combo box instead of seeing the first 8
entries
being 1/9/04, 1/23/04 etc I'd like to based on =now() or
today() have the
listing "start-with" the first date meeting my =now() criteria.
Can this be
done?

Thanks in advance,