Thanks a lot Alan! This worked great!You have been quite helpful. I
appreciate your time.
"Alan" wrote:

If its done correctly the user can only either use the drop down list or
type in a value contained in the range 'county'. Don't have any blank cells
in the range, if you do have any, unckeck 'Ignore Blank'
Its all there in Help by the way,
Regards,
"barryderay" wrote in message
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OK I figured it out and it works. But the user can still type in whatever
they want. Now they do have the option of using the dropdown menu but they
are not forced to. Is there a way to do this using the custom setting and
entering a formula pointing to the named range "county'?

"Alan" wrote:

In a convenient empty column in the workbook, preferably out of site eg a
hiddeen worksheet, enter all 77 County names (laborious I know). Name
this
range 'county' or whatever and in your input field go Data Validation,
choose 'List' and in the dialogue box below enter
=county
Enter a suitable error message and that's it done.
Changing the case of inputted data can be done with VBA code, but not by
formatting, suggest you ask this in Programming,
Regards,
"barryderay" wrote in message
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I have a field asking for a county name. There are 77 possible counties
to
enter. I want to ensure that the user enters a valid county and has it
spelt
correctly. Is there a way to do this? Can I have the validation point
to
text
file with all the acceptable entries? Also is there a way to format the
cell
to convert anything entered into all upper case?