Hiding a cell's drop-down menu, dependent on a tick-box selection...

[mintos]

Hi All,

I'm working on putting together a project initiation form at work,
which involves registering if established business partners (ie.
partners the IT business has worked with on previous projects) will be
involved in forthcoming projects.

The problem:

1. I have included a tick-box, which asks 'will this project involve IT
business partners?'
2. I have also included a) a drop-down menu which will become
visible/usable after the tick-box is selected, and b) a cell for
including 'Other' - this will be used in the event of the 'Other'
selection in the drop-down being chosen.
3. Drop-down data is on another worksheet within the workbook.
4. I would like to hide/disable the drop-down and 'Other' text cell
until the tick-box is selected. The 'Other' text cell will, in-turn,
remain hidden/disabled until the ‘Other’ field within the drop-down
menu is chosen.

Seems tricky, and I’ve scoured MS Excel help and the Web for answers,
with no success. Is the above achievable?

Regards,

Richard

 

[pinmaster]

I'm sure there's a better way but here's one way.

Say that your check box is linked to A1 and your drop down menu is i
B1, then select B1 go to Data/Validation, select "list" from th
"Allow" menu and in the formula box type something like:

=IF(A1=TRUE,list1,list2)

list1 would be your drop down menu data, list2 would be any empty cell
when the check box is checkcked then the drop down menu will show list1
unchecked then list2 (empty).

For the "Other" option cell you could also use Dat
Validation....select "custom" from the "allow" meu and type:

=B1="other"

data will only be possible if B1 = "Other", I would also us
conditional formatting to make the cell invisible unless "other" i
selected.

Hope this helps!
Jean-Gu

 

[Guest]

Put all this stuff onto a Userform - -VB Editor - where you more access to
vba code.

putting controls onto a spreadsheet is asking for disaster.