Hello!

A sheet has a dropdown list for cell A1 (for example). The list
contains "NA,dog,cat,fish" and "Ignore blanks" is NOT checked. A2 has
a concatenate formula using what is in A1.

For some reason, when I open the workbook, A1 is blank. It has the
little arrow which shows it has a dropdown, but none of the 4 dropdown
choices are displayed.

When I click on the cell itself , nothing happens and it keeps the
blank there. When I click on the arrow nect to the cell, it brings up
the dropdown and I must pick one of the 4 choices. I can't get the
blank to show up after that no matter what I do.

The problem is that one of my users printed out A2 while A1 was blank
which made the A2 concatenate use a blank space which produced a bad
printout.

I have never seen it where there is no blank in the dropdown list
itself, and "ignore blanks" is unchecked, but it still allows a blank
cell to be displayed.

BTW, the rest of the sheet is locked and then the whole sheet
protected. This in Excel 2003.

Any help appreciated! I have the workbook available if anyone wants to
take a crack at it.

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