Re: drop-down lists and feezing panes

Well, now this is just plain embarassing!

I spent .25hrs searching the MS website and .75hrs first talking to a
gal in India (I think), who I don't think really understood the idiom
"bug", but eventually pointed me to a bug-report website for something
called MS Expression (a web design app, I think), and then a gal in the
Phillipines who eventually handed me off to a tech-support guy here in
the States who asked me to email a attached spread*** that
demonstrated the bug. He replied the next day that he would look into
this, send it up the food chain, and get back me.

And it turns out all I had to do was Help>Send Feedback on Excel...

I guess the wonderful thing about life is that you learn something new
everday. :-)

JE McGimpsey wrote:
In article <1158085965.373209.44030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"James Norris" <jnorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is anyone else having this problem?
Is there any known work-around, aside from unfreezing the pane when I
want to use the former drop-down list?

Hmm...

If asked before this, I would have sworn that this was fixed in an
earlier version of XL04. However, I see the same thing, which is
consistent with previous versions (and I almost never use validation
lists and freeze panes together).

One (relatively poor) workaround is to split the window rather than
freeze panes.

Another option is to use a combobox from the forms toolbar.

Does anyone know if Microsoft knows about the bug?
How woudl one report this bug to Microsoft?

Microsoft has certainly been made aware of the bug, and here is as good
a place as any to report it. You can also send a report via Help/Send
Feedback in any Office04 app.

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