Click on the cell and hit Alt+Down arrow key until your selection is made.
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Anne Troy
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"MatthewTap" wrote in message
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In editing a list in Data Validation and using the arrow keys it will not
help me move around in the list, but will select the cells around the
fields
I'm validation, and thus will enter into the list things along the lines
of:
=$E$1

Is there a way I can switch the focus to the list so that I can use the
arrow keys to move within the list?