Excel extract all data of drop down list into Column

Question

I have copied a drop down list cell from other sheet and trying to fetch its all items name. Dropdown list is created through excel property by this link, not using Combo Box . Is there any way to get all items of drop down list ? Means get the original list which is mapped to the drop down.

I tried to get it through VB Script also but it does not work.

Dim dd As DropDown
Set dd = ActiveSheet.DropDowns("MyDropDown")

When I debug that code it show "unable to get the dropdowns property of the worksheet class" error at

Set dd = ActiveSheet.DropDowns("MyDropDown")

line and this Excel dropdowns in VBA: "Unable to get the DropDowns property of the Worksheet class" not helped me. Is ActiveSheet.DropDowns("MyDropDown") works only for Combo Box ? Then how I get all items either using excel property or VB Script?

Answer 1

Ah, your original question didn't make it clear that you were using Data Validation. To loop through all the items in a Data Validation list, you can use this code:

Sub loopthroughvalidationlist()
     Dim inputRange As Range
     Dim c As Range
     ' Change range below to first cell in your list
     Set inputRange = Evaluate(Range("J6").Validation.Formula1)
     For Each c In inputRange
        MsgBox (c)
     Next c
End Sub