dropdown list in alphabetical order data validation...

[albertc30]

Hi all, again...

I have been reading on this and have found a few good youtube videos.

One in particular mentioned 4 ways this could be achieved, the best way being the new function SORT.

Sadly, this is not available on my newly bought office 2019 professional. Just another way Microsoft has to push us in the direction they want us to go.

Another way to do it was by means of a query. To be honest I never have worked with queries and the one thing about it was that it needed refreshing manually?!

There's also, off course the macro. To use this I'd have to copy the column in question to another sheet as to have it sorted independently and only the data I'm interested in.

Is there a better simpler way to achieve this?

Any help is truly appreciated.

Thank you.
Cheers

 

[albertc30]

Okay.

I have come across this;

When you let the dynamic named range change, you should use VBA to re-set the .ListFillRange such that the combobox will refresh its list-items.

No clue as to how though!

 

[Akuini]

Okay.
When you let the dynamic named range change, you should use VBA to re-set the .ListFillRange such that the combobox will refresh its list-items.
!

As a start you may find this link helpful (it's about a searchable combobox):
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/1089693-data-entry-force-selection.html

 

[albertc30]

As a start you may find this link helpful (it's about a searchable combobox):
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/1089693-data-entry-force-selection.html

Very interesting.

It doesn't sort list in alphabetical order.

I will give it a go but need to wrap my head around this one.

Will have to create a back at this point.

Cheers.

 

[Akuini]

Here's another version that make the list in the combobox unique, sorted & not having blank:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vwdihz6im...e, searchable,unique,sort,arraylist.xlsm?dl=0