That should work. Did you choose "List" for the Allow Field? When you enter
your range, did you start it with an = sign?

=E9:E39 will look in that range.

E9:E39 will only accept the literal value "E9:E39"

HTH,
Elkar


"edwardpestian" wrote:


I need to validate an entry against a range of dates. For example, if
the user entered a date, that was not in the range E9:E39 the would get
a specified message: "Date is not found in the range." I tried using
datavalidation, but it would not accept the range.

Thanks in advance.

ep


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