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I Have a problem when formatting cekks to accept a drop down list via data
validation. For some reason the cells do not display the drop down menu.. Going in to the cell all appears OK - i have used this function many times before. Is there something obvious i may have missed .?? |
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The drop down is available when you select the "List" validation. If you have chosen the "List" validation, then ensure the "In-cell drop-down" checkbox is checked, otherwise there will be no drop down available. -- Vito ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vito's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29182 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=503885 |
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Hi,
If you are using Data-Validation, then the drop down appears only if you click on the cell and if not , it looks like a normal cell. If you always want the dropdown to be displayed, try inserting a combox box from the Forms Toolbar. Regards Govind. G wrote: I Have a problem when formatting cekks to accept a drop down list via data validation. For some reason the cells do not display the drop down menu.. Going in to the cell all appears OK - i have used this function many times before. Is there something obvious i may have missed .?? |
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Incell drop down ticked..
I have used this function many times before, the strange thing being that it works fine on other pages within the workbook.. Feel i have something swithced off in options or view but cannot see anything that works.. "Vito" wrote: The drop down is available when you select the "List" validation. If you have chosen the "List" validation, then ensure the "In-cell drop-down" checkbox is checked, otherwise there will be no drop down available. -- Vito ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vito's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29182 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=503885 |
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"G" wrote
... Incell drop down ticked.. I have used this function many times before, the strange thing being that it works fine on other pages within the workbook.. Feel i have something switched off in options or view but cannot see anything that works.. Are you using Excel 97? Just to share some thoughts .. (no solution to offer, sorry). I've experienced this phenomena before in Excel 97 (my ver) One particular sheet just went "poof" one fine day while working in Excel. All existing DV droplists just plain disappeared. And new DVs created stubbornly refused to show the droplists in the sheet. Had no choice then but to revert to my last back-up (in which the existing DVs still worked in that particular sheet), and recover / re-work from there ( .. was thankful I did the back-ups .. ) -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- |
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If you had some code for deleting shapes, it is possible that you deleted
the arrow shape inadvertently. -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "G" wrote in message ... Incell drop down ticked.. I have used this function many times before, the strange thing being that it works fine on other pages within the workbook.. Feel i have something swithced off in options or view but cannot see anything that works.. "Vito" wrote: The drop down is available when you select the "List" validation. If you have chosen the "List" validation, then ensure the "In-cell drop-down" checkbox is checked, otherwise there will be no drop down available. -- Vito ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vito's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29182 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=503885 |
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Bob, I couldn't help having a deja vu` feeling <g,
re - similar discussions with Dave Peterson in 6/2004: http://tinyurl.com/d3las (.. and I swear there wasn't any code in use) -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- |
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Hi Max,
So did I when I read this. Dave and I also had a discussion in Mar 2005 http://tinyurl.com/de4cx Not a solution IAF, but a way to ensure your code doesn't cause it. -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Max" wrote in message ... Bob, I couldn't help having a deja vu` feeling <g, re - similar discussions with Dave Peterson in 6/2004: http://tinyurl.com/d3las (.. and I swear there wasn't any code in use) -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- |
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If if you're using xl97 and that cell with the dropdown validation is above the
window|freeze panes, then that could be the problem, too. G wrote: I Have a problem when formatting cekks to accept a drop down list via data validation. For some reason the cells do not display the drop down menu.. Going in to the cell all appears OK - i have used this function many times before. Is there something obvious i may have missed .?? -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi All,
I'm afraid it remains a mystery. No hidden code nothing sneaky (that I could see anyway) FYI i am using 2003. I resolved the issue by copying the sheet and starting again... Perhaps we'll nver know !!! "G" wrote: I Have a problem when formatting cekks to accept a drop down list via data validation. For some reason the cells do not display the drop down menu.. Going in to the cell all appears OK - i have used this function many times before. Is there something obvious i may have missed .?? |
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"Bob Phillips" wrote:
.. Dave and I also had a discussion in Mar 2005 * http://tinyurl.com/de4cx Yes, I do recollect that thread .. strung along a bit later there Not a solution IAF, but a way to ensure your code doesn't cause it. The precautions/code offered are well taken, and appreciated. Thankfully, this "event" hasn't recurred since to me (touch wood ..). It'll be great though, if there was code available which could re-instate the "lost" DV dropdown functionality in the sheet, whatever its underlying cause(s) may be. --- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- |
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"Max" wrote in message
... "Bob Phillips" wrote: .. Dave and I also had a discussion in Mar 2005 * http://tinyurl.com/de4cx Thankfully, this "event" hasn't recurred since to me (touch wood ..). It'll be great though, if there was code available which could re-instate the "lost" DV dropdown functionality in the sheet, whatever its underlying cause(s) may be. Unfortunately that is the thing that nobody has been able to do AFAIK. |
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