A drop-down list has choices MARRIED or SINGLE.

When a user selects MARRIED, I'd like A1 to show "You
are married", and "You are single" if the choice is later
changed to SINGLE. Can this be done? How can Excel "know"
that a certain selection was made from the list?????????
Is this what's called a "click-event"?

Thanks!
Paul

Paul,

Depends what the drop-down is. If it's data validation, just test the value
of the cell. If its a control toolbox combobox, link the result to a cell
and test that.

Then its just a simple IF test

=IF(C1="MARRIED","You are married", "You are single")

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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A drop-down list has choices MARRIED or SINGLE.

When a user selects MARRIED, I'd like A1 to show "You
are married", and "You are single" if the choice is later
changed to SINGLE. Can this be done? How can Excel "know"
that a certain selection was made from the list?????????
Is this what's called a "click-event"?

Thanks!
Paul