If you apply a name to the range in sheet1 you can refer to that name
for data validation in other sheets in the same workbook - Debra
Dalgleish shows how he

http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jun 29, 10:30*am, antony wrote:
in workbook1 i have written from A1 to A8 and I want this 8 cells to appear
as a drop-down list in a cell (e.g C3) in workbook2 and every time i change
something on the list in workbook one to be also changed on the drop-down
list on workbook2 *