With the list alphabetized, you can put an A at the beginning of the list of
A's, a B at the top of the list of B's... etc all the way down through your
list to Z.

Now, enter the letter of choice and DON'T hit enter. Just click on the down
arrow and it will take you to the letter, which is the beginning of that
letters list.

You can hit enter after typing your letter in the cell, but then you have to
re-select the cell to activate the drop down.

HTH
Regards,
Howard

"sedonovan" wrote in message
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Hi all,


The cell contains a long drop down list

To save scrolling to the correct entry I start typing it in the cell and
the
matching results come back.

Say I'm searching in a VERY long list and I want to find names beginning
with M - is there a way to type M into the cell rather than scrolling
through
the whole list?

I don't want to filter according to the value in the cell as I have to
enter
data in the cell below using the list.


:)