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Alex,
I actually found a work around so I thought Id post what was going on incase anyone else runs into this problem.

I have a fairly large spreadsheet that has a bunch of validation dropdowns. Now whenever a new sheet is needed I use a macro to create the new sheet and apply all the validations.

Original Code shortened


    With Range("B13:B20,B22:B29,B31:B42,B44:").Validation
        .Delete
        .Add Type:=xlValidateList, AlertStyle:=xlValidAlertStop, Operator:= _
        xlBetween, Formula1:="=Keys!$C$2:$C$31"
        .IgnoreBlank = True
        .InCellDropdown = True
        .InputTitle = ""
        .ErrorTitle = ""
        .InputMessage = ""
        .ErrorMessage = ""
        .ShowInput = True
        .ShowError = True   
    End With

As my spreadsheet grew this worked fine until I figured out that the range method has a 255 character limit. Now it took me a bit to figure this out, but to get around the 255 character limit you have to use a union to join your string into a variable then use the properties of the variable to apply the validations.


New Code Shortened
Set R1 = Range("E13:AJ20,E22:AJ29,")
Set R2 = Range("E160:AJ171,E176:AJ183")

Set RngAll = Application.Union(R1, R2)
   
    'Key Range
    With RngAll.Validation
        .Delete
        .Add Type:=xlValidateList, AlertStyle:=xlValidAlertStop, Operator:= _
        xlBetween, Formula1:="=Keys!$A$2:$A$20"
        .IgnoreBlank = True
        .InCellDropdown = True
        .InputTitle = ""
        .ErrorTitle = ""
        .InputMessage = ""
        .ErrorMessage = ""
        .ShowInput = True
        .ShowError = True    
    End With

Reply from Alex Hedley:

Thanks for sharing.

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