Excel: how to display pulldowns from other workbooks

In book #1, I have a pulldown menu with the validations on the same sheet. Pretend the pulldown is in cell A1. I can easily go to A2 and have it " =A1" and that works without errors.

I would like to display the pulldown results in book #2, but it's giving me #VALUE errors. how do i fix this?

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You are just trying to get the value of A1 into the other book? So in Book2 you have a cell with the formula =[Book1]Sheet1!$A$1 And it's giving you an error?

I don't see why the value in A1 coming from a pulldown menu would affect your ability to reference the value in the cell.

If you are trying to get Book2 to have a matching pulldown that is a different issue.

Can you try to recreate the problem in otherwise blank worksheets that you could upload or describe it in more detail?

 

Yes, it's giving an error because it's some "validation field" or whatever that is pulling from a table from colujmn B. If i don't get an answer in 24 hours i'll upload an example

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