Thanks Jonathon, 

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 07:02, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 06:34 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I was wondering, I would like to restrict the contents of the cells in a
> > specific column.
> >
> > Let me explain, in my case for column P, the user must only be able to
> > type in branch codes, the branch codes must be predefined through a drop
> > down list.
> >
> > The reason is that I will be using countif combined with sum to calculate
> > the totals that we have produced for our branches.
> > Could someone please tell me what we call this and if possible provide
> > and example of how to set it up?
>
> Hi Chadley,
>
> This is quite simple in the newer 1.9 (2.0 beta) series of
> OpenOffice.org. Simply go to Data -> Validity and choose the
> list criteria. Specify your required branch codes and the column
> is set.
>
> If you are using 1.x series, then to use Validity in a similar
> way, you will have to trap all entries and then do it through a
> macro event handler.
>
> Regards
> Jonathon

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