Is Placeholder text in cell an option ?

ipbr21054

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Hi,
On my sheet i have two drop down boxes in obviously two different cells.

The drop down arrow is not shown until you click the cell so to remind users that it is there "but not always needed to click" i have used a slight grey in color to point this out to them.

The thing is now they are wondering what the drop down box is for on that cell if you see what i mean.

So is it possible for a placeholder text with some kind of hint to remind them.
If they need to select from the drop down then the selected text will overwrite the placeholder.

If nothing is selected & when i print it out i dont want the placeholder text to be printed.

Make sense
Many thanks.
 

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