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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.

Set the width CSS property of the select element and its option elements to set the width of a select dropdown using CSS. If setting the property has no effect, you might have to use the ! important flag.

Right-click one of the cells you highlighted and click "Paste special." The Paste Special dialog box opens and displays several pasting options. Click "Validation" followed by "OK." Excel copies the drop-down list to the cells you selected.

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The size attribute specifies the number of visible options in a drop-down list. If the value of the size attribute is greater than 1, but lower than the total number of options in the list, the browser will add a scroll bar to indicate that there are more options to view.

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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.

HTML <select> size Attribute The size attribute of the <select> element is used to set the number of visible list items from a drop-down list. A scrollbar would get added if the size is set more than 1. Above, num is the count of the visible list items in the drop-down 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.

It is not possible to limit the number of visible elements in the select dropdown (if you use it as dropdown box and not as list). But you could use javascript/jQuery to replace this selectbox with something else, which just looks like a dropdown box. Then you can handle the height of dropdown as you want.