You can't with Data Validation. You could either colour the cell as well, or
switch to a combobox.

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Bob

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"rongripon" wrote in message
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I have figured out how to build dropdowns. now I would like to have the
selection arrows show all the time instead of when you mouse over. Anyone
know how to do that, if it's possible?
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