I am interested in knowing if there is a way to have a dropdown list and freeflow text in one cell.

for example my dropdown list is of initials of my colleagues. After that I want to be able to write text (like "job complete" or "needs investigation) but all in the same cell. Is this possible?

I ask as normally you would have a colomn for the dropdown and another colomn for cells but i have so much code in place that refers to certain cells that it would muck things up too much