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AaronvdHeijden
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Feb 18, 2020
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Expand amount of characters for source in data validation

Hello,   I am working in excel and I am making a dropdown list with data validation. De amount of characters in the source window is too low. Is there a way to increase this?   Greetings,   Aar...
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    Riny_van_Eekelen
    Feb 18, 2020

    AaronvdHeijden Use Named Ranges and INDIRECT. I have attached a quick-and-dirty example demonstrating this. You would have to restructure your listings a bit, but it will work beautifully.

     

    Note that Named ranges only accept normal characters, numbers and underscores and they NOT start with a number. Every sub-option will have to have it's own Named Range.

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