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    Good afternoon,

    I'm new to this forum and looking for some much needed assistance.

    I've been trying to desperately increase the font size in a drop down list and through searching this site I am now aware that you can do so by creating a combo box (never used one before).

    My dilema is that the range of cells that I am looking up is located on a seperate sheet (All my data is referenced of this sheet) and the the combo box will need to be looked up for a formula on a further seperate sheet.

    Confused??? I am. Is this even possible?

    Help!!!

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    It sure is possible.


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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    See if this helps:

    http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal08.html#Font
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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    Heres an example of the worrksheet.

    Thanks for all your help.
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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    I can't see any combo boxes on your sheet.

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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    Sorry,

    I removed them because I couldnt get them to work and didn't know if what I wanted to do was possible with a combo box.

    Due to other sheets using them cells to pull information, I'm not sure if you can link a combo box with a formula?

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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    PS,

    The two posts you are replying to are for the same excel sheet. ha ha. sorry to be a pain.

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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    Are you referring to DataValidation as the Combobox.

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    Re: Drop down list font size, Combo box, formula

    I believe what I already have is data validation, but this is what is not possible to alter font size etc so on researching all info seems to point to combo box. Never used these before and what I was hoping was to use a combo box as an alternative to solve the font size issue but I then have other sheets using formulae to pull information from cells which I have data validation currently in.

    So not to sure where to go with it really. But it is the same file where I am looking to hide cells if a cell - Saturday or Sunday.

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