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Width of DV drop down list changes
As I understand it, the width of the Data Validation drop down list should be
the same width as the column. In my workbook, for some unknown reason, sometimes the drop down list will be much wider than the column. Then just as suddenly, the list will go back to being the correct width. During these times, I'm doing other mods unrelated to the DV lists. But I haven't been able to deduced what action affects this. Does anyone have any idea what is causing the lists to get too wide? I have beat my head against this for a very long time. I've tried insuring that the contents of the list are not too wide, I've reformatted the columns of both the column using the list and the source column of the list. Nothing I know to do fixes it. I've tried to zoom the WS and unzoom it, NOTHING. I have no idea why it suddenly fixes itself, but then later changes again. It happens on all versions of Excel I've used, Excel 2002 (Office XP), Excel 2003, and Excel 2007. Any help is REALLY appreciated. John S. |
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Width of DV drop down list changes
I want to know the answer to this as well. It is very irritating, especially
if I'm doing an app for some other user. I have one DV that just has Y and N as values, and it's 3 times as wide as the input cell. -- cm "DocBrown" wrote: As I understand it, the width of the Data Validation drop down list should be the same width as the column. In my workbook, for some unknown reason, sometimes the drop down list will be much wider than the column. Then just as suddenly, the list will go back to being the correct width. During these times, I'm doing other mods unrelated to the DV lists. But I haven't been able to deduced what action affects this. Does anyone have any idea what is causing the lists to get too wide? I have beat my head against this for a very long time. I've tried insuring that the contents of the list are not too wide, I've reformatted the columns of both the column using the list and the source column of the list. Nothing I know to do fixes it. I've tried to zoom the WS and unzoom it, NOTHING. I have no idea why it suddenly fixes itself, but then later changes again. It happens on all versions of Excel I've used, Excel 2002 (Office XP), Excel 2003, and Excel 2007. Any help is REALLY appreciated. John S. |
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