Debra Dalgleish has the how-to for using data from another workBOOK for DV.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal05.html

Note the source book must be open.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:55:01 -0800, Nat Govender
wrote:

Hi Joerg,

Sorry, I did mean workbook.



"Joerg Mochikun" wrote:

Well, I tested it and it works ("data" was a range on Sheet2, the drop-down
was on Sheet1). I hope that with " totally different speadsheet" you don't
mean workbook...
Joerg

"Nat Govender" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have tried that but it does not work.

I want to generate a Validation from a totally different speadsheet.

Thanks in advance
Nat Govender

"Joerg Mochikun" wrote:

One caveat: In Data|validation|settings you have to precede the list
source
with "=", so if your range name is "data'" you have to input "=data"
(without quotes)

Joerg

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
You can reference another sheet!

Just add a name to that sheet range, InsertNameDefine..., and use the
name rather than the range directly.

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HTH

Bob

"Nat Govender" <Nat wrote in
message
...
Hi All,

I know that in Excel it says that you cannot reference a diffetent
worksheet
when it comes to data validation, however is there any macro that I
could
use
or is there a formular or is there any other way ?



Your help would be greatly appreaciated.



Thanks in advance
Nat Govender