Having read the following posts - I thought it would be easy to have 5
categories with up to 30 items in each sub category. Please help... the
first column and categories work fine, but the sub-set does not. Some rows
do not display a menu and if they do they are not the corresponding items. I
have changed names etc to no avail. I cannot see what I am doing wrong....

"I think Dependent Lists will meet your requirements.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP

"scott56hannah" wrote:

I want to be able to drive the selection by Data Validation Lists from the
selection of one list - eg category.....following selection of an item in
that list.....the secondary list is populated with valid sub-categories only
for that category.....is there anyway to do this using validation lists or is
another approach needed ?"

I don't think we will be able to guess what you did, the permutations are
enormous. What exactly did you do, what formulae, data etc.?

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HTH

Bob

(change the xxxx to gmail if mailing direct)


"premierbmwagve" wrote in message
...
Having read the following posts - I thought it would be easy to have 5
categories with up to 30 items in each sub category. Please help... the
first column and categories work fine, but the sub-set does not. Some
rows
do not display a menu and if they do they are not the corresponding items.
I
have changed names etc to no avail. I cannot see what I am doing
wrong....

"I think Dependent Lists will meet your requirements.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP

"scott56hannah" wrote:

I want to be able to drive the selection by Data Validation Lists from
the
selection of one list - eg category.....following selection of an item in
that list.....the secondary list is populated with valid sub-categories
only
for that category.....is there anyway to do this using validation lists
or is
another approach needed ?"

I think you'll need to describe the ranges you're using, the formulas in the
Data Validation, and post some sample data for a more substantive answer.

***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"premierbmwagve" wrote:

Having read the following posts - I thought it would be easy to have 5
categories with up to 30 items in each sub category. Please help... the
first column and categories work fine, but the sub-set does not. Some rows
do not display a menu and if they do they are not the corresponding items. I
have changed names etc to no avail. I cannot see what I am doing wrong....

"I think Dependent Lists will meet your requirements.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP

"scott56hannah" wrote:

I want to be able to drive the selection by Data Validation Lists from the
selection of one list - eg category.....following selection of an item in
that list.....the secondary list is populated with valid sub-categories only
for that category.....is there anyway to do this using validation lists or is
another approach needed ?"

Hi Bob

Situation resolved it all works properly when I realised that there were
hidden rows and columns which i was referencing...

Many Thanks.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

I don't think we will be able to guess what you did, the permutations are
enormous. What exactly did you do, what formulae, data etc.?

--
---
HTH

Bob

(change the xxxx to gmail if mailing direct)


"premierbmwagve" wrote in message
...
Having read the following posts - I thought it would be easy to have 5
categories with up to 30 items in each sub category. Please help... the
first column and categories work fine, but the sub-set does not. Some
rows
do not display a menu and if they do they are not the corresponding items.
I
have changed names etc to no avail. I cannot see what I am doing
wrong....

"I think Dependent Lists will meet your requirements.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP

"scott56hannah" wrote:

I want to be able to drive the selection by Data Validation Lists from
the
selection of one list - eg category.....following selection of an item in
that list.....the secondary list is populated with valid sub-categories
only
for that category.....is there anyway to do this using validation lists
or is
another approach needed ?"

Following Debra's instructions step by step will give you what you need.

You can drill down several levels using her methods.

As far as what you are doing wrong...............difficult to see from here.

How are you creating the lists? From a range or typing directly into the source
dialog?

How are you naming your lists?

How do you enter the listnames into the source dialog?

Must be preceded by an = sign like =MyList


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:55:00 -0800, premierbmwagve
wrote:

Having read the following posts - I thought it would be easy to have 5
categories with up to 30 items in each sub category. Please help... the
first column and categories work fine, but the sub-set does not. Some rows
do not display a menu and if they do they are not the corresponding items. I
have changed names etc to no avail. I cannot see what I am doing wrong....

"I think Dependent Lists will meet your requirements.

See Debra Dalgleish's website for instructions:
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP

"scott56hannah" wrote:

I want to be able to drive the selection by Data Validation Lists from the
selection of one list - eg category.....following selection of an item in
that list.....the secondary list is populated with valid sub-categories only
for that category.....is there anyway to do this using validation lists or is
another approach needed ?"