Ignoring Blank Value In A Drop Down List

Jul 25, 2006

I have a dynamic drop down validation List, which comes from another
spreadsheet list and have a few random blank cells in it. I need to
drop these blank values from the List without making any change in the
parent list. I may also have some duplicate values in the List and need
to drop them too.

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i have a list which is populated with data from another sheet.. if there is no data in the corresponding cell on the other sheet then the cell is blank.. i've tried using:

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A1
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B1
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Illustration:

C1 Amber
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C3
C4
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[Code].....

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