Developing a Sorted Popup Menu

Hello Folks;
How would I go about developing / scripting a sorted popup menu for Numbers in iWork 09?
Thank you,
vic

Hi Vic,
Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Numbers '09 forum.
The bad news is that popup menus in Numbers aren't sortable, except by heavy handed editing. You can add items—but only to the bottom of the list, you can delete items—from anywhere in the list, and you can rename items.
You can use Fill down or Fill right to copy a popup menu into a range of cells, but if these are edited popups replacing older versions, the previously set values will be replaced by the value set for the original being pasted in.
For some flexibility, you might want to use a technique involving a Slider, a LOOKUP table and the VLOOKUP function. Jerrold Green wrote about it and provided some examples in discussion of Working with Pop-up menus in this forum back in April. The link will take you to that discussion.
Regards,
Barry

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