Drop Down that can have data pasted into it without losing the drop down

Jasper27

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Hi,

I have a sales report I want our clients to fill out. When they tell us the product # they sold I also wan them to tell us what that product is using a drop down the the next cell. However I know some of them with just copy and paste the data in which will remove the drop down if done by data validation. I also want the sheet to validate that information against the list in the drop down.

So if the drop down has Mens T-shirt, Womens T-shirt, Hat, Wrist Watch

and they paste in T-shirt it should let them know that is not on the list.

Would it be possible to have it linked to a button so after they fill out possibly hundreds of rows they can hit a button to validate?
 

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