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    Drop down box help

    Everyone,

    I am after a bit of help and guidance!

    I have a worksheet which requires one cell to be validated with 3 options of potential answers A/B/C

    This is in the form of a drop down list.

    There follows another box which needs to be in list format, however if in the previous box 'A' is selected then it requires one list of options to be used. If 'B' it requires a diffetrent list to be shown, and if 'C' then another list to be shown.

    I assume if will be similar to an 'IF' 'THEN' command being used somehow?

    Can anyone help?

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    Re: Drop down box help

    These are called DependentDropBoxes. Here's a link to a sample sheet showing how this done...and some further reading material:

    http://www.excelforum.com/attachment...dentlists2.xls 2 levels
    http://www.excelforum.com/attachment...ndentlists.xls 3 levels
    http://www.excelforum.com/attachment...elfsorting.xls
    http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal13.html 'more reading
    http://contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html 'more reading
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    Re: Drop down box help

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