"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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conceptually, it looks like you want to do validation to a list in a
separate workbook.

Yes. And i'm sorry for not beeing clear in my op
regarding Workbooks(1) and Workbooks("RefBookName")
- they are different workbooks. Giving the name
to the list has solved the problem.
Thanks for your reply. Boba.