Stretching range drop down box

Tkeller

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This probably has an easy answer, but I can not find it.

I has inherited a worksheet tht has dozens of named ranges, most of them very long and most only differing slightly (e.g. output_range_1, output_range_2). I would like to be able to see the complete name for these ranges using the excel drop down box on the tool bar above. I can not figure out how to expand the width of this box. Any help would be much apppreciated.

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Hello Tkeller,
You can use this to widen the name box.
Put this in a standard module.
Code:
Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
    (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Public Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" _
    (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, _
    ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long

Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
    (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _
    ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
 
 
Sub WidenNameBoxDrop()
    Dim Res As Long
    Const CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH = &H160
    Const cWidth = 400 '<<<<< Set the desired width here.
    Res = SendMessage( _
            FindWindowEx( _
                FindWindowEx( _
                    FindWindow("XLMAIN", Application.Caption) _
                , 0, "EXCEL;", vbNullString) _
            , 0, "combobox", vbNullString), _
          CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH, cWidth, 0)
End Sub

And then you can put this in the ThisWorkbook module.
Code:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Call WidenNameBoxDrop
End Sub

Note: I don't remember to whom to give the credit for this, but I know it works well. :biggrin:
 
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Ah, thanks Greg. I shall make note of that and include kudos to him in the future.
(I figured it was maybe Ivan or JPG or someone, but Chip will do as well) :biggrin:
 
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