That's *not* what the ignore blank option is for.

The only way to not have the empty cells appear in your drop down is to not
have empty cells in the source list.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Vinod" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've given a data validation with list, source as fixed name range (
include
blanks) and settings Ignore blanks is checked.

The issue I'm facing is Dropdown list displaying all the values from the
given named range including blanks.

Please help me out how to exclude blanks from dropdown list.

If possible:
Another scenario, some times I'm creating a named range dynamically using
'OFFSET' function by finding last used cell in named range required column
i.e., There are some blank cells included inbetween first cell and Last
cell
after creation of dynamic named range.

In this scenario, how to excldue blanks if I give this named range as
source
to one of the data validation.

Advanced Thanks,
~Vins