Thanks Gord. This does the work I need and I have also bookmarked the site
you suggested for future reference.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Yes.

Uncheck "Show error alert"

The user-input will not be added to the list permanently.

If you want that you will require some VBA code.

See Debra Dalgleish's site for a sample workbook.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/excelfiles.html#DV0012


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:00:01 -0700, GEdwards
wrote:

I cannot find if there is a way to have a dropdown list that contains
pre-defined data validation entries and also allow a user to input their own.

Is there a way to do this in Excel?

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