drop down boxes

judygal

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Hi everyone. I am having trouble getting drop down boxes to work in Excel 97. What I want to do is when someone clicks or arrows into a certain cell, have a drop down box appear for them to choose one of the items. I have tried doing it with the form toolbar, but can't seem to get that to work, tried it with data validation, which will work until I close and reopen, then it disappears. Can anyone help. Please.
 

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Hi judygal

You say that once you close and re-open, the Validation list is gone. I have to ask 2 obvious questions.

1. Are you saving?
2. Do you click back in the cell with the Valdidation?
 
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