Losing validation on workbook transfer from Android to Windows?

welshgasman

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  1. 2007
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  1. Windows
Hi all, Happy New Year to you.

I have a workbook that I transfer to my Android phone to use in the week. I am a volunteer with the local community car scheme and this workbook keeps tracck of all my trips and mileage/amounts involved.
At the end of my week, I transfer the workbook back to my laptop, 1 - as a backup, 2- to be able to add the new trips when I get them from the controller. During the week, trips are added directly into the phone workbook.

I have noticed (and this has only just been happening recently) that I lose the data validation I have when the workbook is opened in Excel. I am using 2007.

Now the even stranger event is that it does not happen to all the columns, just one? :(

There is no code in the workbook for when it is opened. I have just added some code to reset the validation from code found at How to add data validation to a cell using VBA

Anyone have any idea as to what is happening? I could understand it somewhat if it was all columns, but not just the one.?
I can live with my macro for now to reset it each time, but curious as to the cause.:unsure:
 

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Just tried on my Android tablet and that worked fine.
Looked at the versions of Excel I have and I had
Tablet 16.0.15928.20192
Phone 16.0.15831.20186

So, I thought, Aha, versions are different. So I updated Excel on the phone to 16.0.15928.20192, but it still does it? :)

Anyone have any ideas as to the cause?

TIA
 
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