Data Validation - Allow List - In-cell Dropdown not showing up

[Patrick Gibbons]

This is in a MS Office 97 Excel Workbook, although I have selected data
validation for a cell the in-cell dropdown is not showing up. Of course
some silly person would tell me that I don't have the In-cell Dropdown
checkbox selected . . . got it smart guy. It is still not working.

I will give you the current setup:

Cell L4 has the current data validation:
Allow: List
Source: =$B$54:$B$65
Ignore blank - selected
In-cell Dropdown - selected

Cells B54:B65
January
February
March . . . etc.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Are you using windows|freeze panes?

Is your cell with Data|validation above that line?

If yes, move the cell or remove the data|validation.

It's a bug in xl97, fixed in xl2k.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

I think Dave meant,... "or remove the freeze panes"

You could use Window>Split instead

 

[Dave Peterson]

Yes, I did. I was distracted by some XSPAM problems.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

If you didn't use your real email address in the public newsgroups,
maybe you wouldn't get so much XSPAM!

Yes, I did. I was distracted by some XSPAM problems.

 

[Patrick Gibbons]

As you suspected the freeze panes was the problem . . . that is a silly bug
.. . . Oh well.

Thank you, now which choice will I use . . . No matter, I'll figure that
out. At least now I know what's up.

Thank you again,

Patrick Gibbons

 

[Dave Peterson]

My name Jose Jimenez.
(apologies to Bill Dana)

or....

mmmmm. XSPAM.
(apologies to Homer Simpson)

If you didn't use your real email address in the public newsgroups,
maybe you wouldn't get so much XSPAM!

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi Debra
this is one of the nice things with NG
You have to constantly adapt your filters :-(

On a sidenote: though in english NG it's o.k. to use false email
addresses in most German NGs (like the German Excel NG) this is
considered against the rules (same is true for not using real names)

If you didn't use your real email address in the public newsgroups,
maybe you wouldn't get so much XSPAM!

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

That's why I don't post in the German newsgroups!

And even with a munged address, I need MailWasher to filter all the
messages that arrive.

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Microsoft recently came out with an advisory telling folks TO use bollixed
email addresses in ng's because of the spam problem.

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi Earl
I know
But believe me you would get some real flames in some German newsgroups
if you use something like (e-mail address removed)
So I use this email just for newsgroups and apply several filters.