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drop-list with different colors for the same charachter
Hi. I want to enter SAME charachter (a wingding symbol) but in different
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drop-list with different colors for the same charachter
There are tons of drop-down lists, all using data validation he
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html Hope this gives you some ideas. If not, post back, with MORE INFORMATION about what you want...it's kind of hard to tell what you really want (at least for me)... Regards, Ryan--- -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi. I want to enter SAME charachter (a wingding symbol) but in different colors from a drop-down list created by using Data Validation. Anyone out there who knows? |
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Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the tip. I didn't find any solution but I will try to describe my problem a littlke bit better. I have a worksheet for a project that shows different subactivities in the A column. The first row shows all the month (A1="Activity", B1="jan, C1="feb" and so on). To see how the project is going on I want to enter the status for the activities for a certain month. Instead of type in "started", "ongoing" etc in every cell I want to use status colors and use the same Wingdings symbol. For example I want to enter a green quad for "started" and a yellow quad for "ongoing". I want to use the drop-down list function that you can create under Data/Validation. You can solve this partly by using different Wingding characters but the dropdown list dont show the symbols correctly. The sheet will look messy as well. BR "ryguy7272" wrote: There are tons of drop-down lists, all using data validation he http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html Hope this gives you some ideas. If not, post back, with MORE INFORMATION about what you want...it's kind of hard to tell what you really want (at least for me)... Regards, Ryan--- -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi. I want to enter SAME charachter (a wingding symbol) but in different colors from a drop-down list created by using Data Validation. Anyone out there who knows? |
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drop-list with different colors for the same charachter
Perhaps this will do what you want. It uses Data Validation (a technique you
want to use) in conjunction with a Combo Box: http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal10.html http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/qu...eate_combo.php One more example he http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/xldropdown.htm Hope that helps. Regards, Ryan -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi Ryan, Thanks for the tip. I didn't find any solution but I will try to describe my problem a littlke bit better. I have a worksheet for a project that shows different subactivities in the A column. The first row shows all the month (A1="Activity", B1="jan, C1="feb" and so on). To see how the project is going on I want to enter the status for the activities for a certain month. Instead of type in "started", "ongoing" etc in every cell I want to use status colors and use the same Wingdings symbol. For example I want to enter a green quad for "started" and a yellow quad for "ongoing". I want to use the drop-down list function that you can create under Data/Validation. You can solve this partly by using different Wingding characters but the dropdown list dont show the symbols correctly. The sheet will look messy as well. BR "ryguy7272" wrote: There are tons of drop-down lists, all using data validation he http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html Hope this gives you some ideas. If not, post back, with MORE INFORMATION about what you want...it's kind of hard to tell what you really want (at least for me)... Regards, Ryan--- -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi. I want to enter SAME charachter (a wingding symbol) but in different colors from a drop-down list created by using Data Validation. Anyone out there who knows? |
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Thanks Ryan,
I will check the links. Regards Björn "ryguy7272" wrote: Perhaps this will do what you want. It uses Data Validation (a technique you want to use) in conjunction with a Combo Box: http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal10.html http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/qu...eate_combo.php One more example he http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/xldropdown.htm Hope that helps. Regards, Ryan -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi Ryan, Thanks for the tip. I didn't find any solution but I will try to describe my problem a littlke bit better. I have a worksheet for a project that shows different subactivities in the A column. The first row shows all the month (A1="Activity", B1="jan, C1="feb" and so on). To see how the project is going on I want to enter the status for the activities for a certain month. Instead of type in "started", "ongoing" etc in every cell I want to use status colors and use the same Wingdings symbol. For example I want to enter a green quad for "started" and a yellow quad for "ongoing". I want to use the drop-down list function that you can create under Data/Validation. You can solve this partly by using different Wingding characters but the dropdown list dont show the symbols correctly. The sheet will look messy as well. BR "ryguy7272" wrote: There are tons of drop-down lists, all using data validation he http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal01.html Hope this gives you some ideas. If not, post back, with MORE INFORMATION about what you want...it's kind of hard to tell what you really want (at least for me)... Regards, Ryan--- -- RyGuy "coronettan" wrote: Hi. I want to enter SAME charachter (a wingding symbol) but in different colors from a drop-down list created by using Data Validation. Anyone out there who knows? |
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