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Employee Absence Schedule
I can't seem to get all my employees to show up under the drop down menu after I have added them to the list. They show up on the Employee Name tab but when I go to add them to the month that I am w...
You have done just about everything right. It is not your fault that Microsoft has not got around to recognising structured references (here, the Table 'EmployeeName') for validation lists.
All you have to do is hide the structured reference within a name. In this case I defined a new Name 'EmployeeValidation' to refer to the Table 'EmployeeName'.
This definition means that the list is dynamic and the validation list remains pointing to the entire table even when additional names are added.