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If you want to extend your data validation, follow these steps. Highlight where you want to extend it to. Make sure you have included cells with the data validation. Click on Data ? Data Validation. You will receive a message that says ? The selection contains some cells without Data Validation settings.Click on Yes.

Go to Data > Data Validation. On the Settings tab, click in the Source box, and then on the worksheet that has the entries for your drop-down list, Select cell contents in Excel containing those entries. You'll see the list range in the Source box change as you select.

In most cases: the worksheet had other cells with data validation in the same row. all dropdowns became the width of the widest dropdown. one of the data validation lists is in a merged cell.

By default, a data validation drop-down list only shows 8 items in the list when clicking the drop-down arrow. So you need to drag the scroll bar down for viewing more values in the list.

There are limits to the number of items that will show in a data validation drop down list: The list can show up to show 32,767 items from a list on the worksheet. If you type the items into the data validation dialog box (a delimited list), the limit is 256 characters, including the separators.

The length of the drop-down box is not big enough to display the entire text. The simple solution is to widen the column that the drop-down box is in. You can adjust the column manually by dragging the border of the column header.

If you want to extend your data validation, follow these steps. Highlight where you want to extend it to. Make sure you have included cells with the data validation. Click on Data ? Data Validation. You will receive a message that says ? The selection contains some cells without Data Validation settings.Click on Yes.