How to create Dropdown lists not using Data Validation

[Guest]

Does anyone have any suggestions on creating dropdown lists other than using
Data Validation. I'm creating a checklist in Excel and I want to control what
users enter and also do some conditional formatting (i.e. select completed,
the cell goes green, overdue, the cell turns red).

I expect to have about 20 items to track and for each one the options will
be different. The reason I don't want to use Data Validation is that I want
to publish this to Sharepoint and Sharepoint Excel web part services do not
support Data Validation.

Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

combo box from forms toolbar
Input range Reference to the range containing the values to display in
the drop-down list.

Cell link Returns the number of the item that's selected in the combo box
(the first item in the list is 1). You can use this number in a formula or
macro to return the actual item from the input range.

For example, if a combo box is linked to cell C1 and the input range for the
list is D1015, the following formula returns the value from range D1015
based on the selection in the list:

=INDEX(D1015,C1)

Drop-down lines Specifies the number of lines to display in the drop-down
list.

3D shading Displays the combo box with a 3-dimensional shaded effect

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you could create a userform that gets the information from the user?

I don't use Sharepoint, so I don't know if userforms work under that.