How to use a dropdown OR text option
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How to use a dropdown OR text option
Requirement:
The user is trying to create a spreadsheet where certain cells have the option of either typing text into them or choosing from a standard option. Obviously the user can use data validation on a cell to create a dropdown that helps select that standard option but the user wants to be able to type in the same cell if required.
Is there a way of using VBA code to detect whether a cell using data validation has had text entered into it and therefore bypass the error pop-up and keep the text entered in the cell? Or an even a way of doing it without VBA?
Solution:
Switch off the error alerts
- Select all the data validation cells where you want to allow other entries
- On the Excel Ribbon, click the Data tab, and click Data Validation
- Click the Error Alert tab
- Remove the check mark from "Show error alert after invalid data is entered"
- Click OK to close the Data Validation box.
Obtained from the OzGrid Help Forum.
Solution provided by royUK.
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