Width of drop down box

chrisl

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I have a spreadsheet where I am using drop-down boxes to validate input in a couple of columns. In both cases I am using named ranges as the list which details possible entries.

For one of the columns - the width of the drop down options when you click in a cell is the same width as the column width of that column.

For another column, when you click on a cell, the drop down box is much wider than the width of the column. (I have not used any visual basic in this spreadsheet).

I am wondering why this is and how I can control the width of the drop down box because I have some long entries where it would help to have the width of the drop down box to be greater than the width of the column.
 

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