I've created lists for dropdown menus that I have used for validation in
certain cells for users to pick from the list. I want the user to be able to
tab into that cell, hit the down arrow on the keyboard to drop the menu,
AND/OR then hit the first letter of the selection they want on the keyboard,
and hit enter to make their selection.

It would be even nicer if they didn't need to drop the menu down but instead
hit the first letter (or even few letters) to find the selection they
want...you see this on websites a lot and I'm hoping Excel has a way to do
it. Hope that makes sense.

Is that possible? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Chris

See Debra Dalgleish's site for instructions on how to create and code a ComboBox
to allow Autocomplete in your DV list.

DV lists on their own cannot autocomplete.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal10.html

Note she has a sample workbook you can download.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:38:01 -0700, Not Excelerated
wrote:

I've created lists for dropdown menus that I have used for validation in
certain cells for users to pick from the list. I want the user to be able to
tab into that cell, hit the down arrow on the keyboard to drop the menu,
AND/OR then hit the first letter of the selection they want on the keyboard,
and hit enter to make their selection.

It would be even nicer if they didn't need to drop the menu down but instead
hit the first letter (or even few letters) to find the selection they
want...you see this on websites a lot and I'm hoping Excel has a way to do
it. Hope that makes sense.

Is that possible? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Chris