I don’t know of another palette tool. I don’t think it would be too hard to incorporate the ability to save custom palettes from the utility’s interface, rather than by manually editing the worksheet. I’ll put it onto my to-do list, which is only, oh, ten thousand items long.

BTW, does no one offer a free color palette manager add-in for classic Excel that is, well, more powerful than your PaletteChooser.xls file? (Yours is great — and free — but doesn’t automatically save and name the current palette.)

I’m not sure if you’re asking a simple question or if you need help coding your project. I’ll assume it’s the former.

You can use a dynamic range for your data validation list source.

If you’re using VBA for dynamically creating worksheets, then you can use a few more lines to control population of thesee or other lists.

I now want to tie all this information together, but the users may have varying processes.

So, I created a new worksheet where the user can define up to ten different processes. 5 processes and 5 hot processes.

From this newly created worksheet, I want the other worksheets to use this list as their dropdown menu. The data validation list function only lets you create a list already in the workbook. I want the drop-down lists not to show any blank cells, too.

In some of the worksheets where I do use data validation lists, the worksheets are dynamically created – meaning I have dialog boxes that are telling the program to insert or delete rows with text/formulas.

Ultimately, I want my summary table to summarize the costs of each line item by water type.

Any suggestions on how I approach this issue?

Thanks,
CKZ

I alluded to this problem when I mentioned cell linkages in the comments to Changes to Charting in Excel 2007. What I often do if the labels are critical is use a separate range next to my data table, and use some kind of lookups to put the records I want, including X and Y values and label text, into this range. The chart is made from this range, so that if I remove an item from the chartable data, everything, including labels, just moves up a row in the plot range.

It’s too much for a post comment, but I’ll add it to my burgeoning list of future topics.

Julia

Missed seeing you guys last week, maybe next year :-)

As I mentioned, I don’t use many utilities any more which are focused on end users. I wrote about the tools I have installed on my system, but I didn’t have JMT Utilities installed. I have been watching over the past couple years while you’ve added to it, and the latest feature set looks pretty impressive.

http://jmt.puremis.net/jmtutils