That's not a feature of Microsoft Excel. The best you can do, I believe, is
a combobox. See:
Deb Dalgleish tells us how, he
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal10.html
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"Poltageist" wrote in message
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How do i turn on the alpha search function in lists? Press the n key and
you
jump to the first and siccessive entry that begins with N etc...?
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POLTAGEIST