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jumping to a portion of a list box
Greetings all, I am developing a workbook for data collection in a research project (which will be used from a PDA). We are tracking plant species that occur at a particular site and I have a picklist from which the user can choose one plant among about 200 that could potentially occur at the site. However, using this picklist on the PDA is cumbersome: the user has to scroll down the list by pointing the little stylus into the littler cell on the screen... this really slows down the data collection process. Is there a way to jump to a portion of the picklist instead, or does anyone have a creative idea as to how we might solve this probem? Thanks - I'll be glad for any advice!! *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** |
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How would any possible code determine what location to jump to?
A listbox has TopIndex property that specifies the list entry that is to be displayed at the top of the listbox, but you have to know that index number. Me.ListBox1.TopIndex = 1 -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "rebecca mann" wrote in message ... Greetings all, I am developing a workbook for data collection in a research project (which will be used from a PDA). We are tracking plant species that occur at a particular site and I have a picklist from which the user can choose one plant among about 200 that could potentially occur at the site. However, using this picklist on the PDA is cumbersome: the user has to scroll down the list by pointing the little stylus into the littler cell on the screen... this really slows down the data collection process. Is there a way to jump to a portion of the picklist instead, or does anyone have a creative idea as to how we might solve this probem? Thanks - I'll be glad for any advice!! *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** |
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If your using Excel (rather than pocket excel), then you can use a combox
from the control toolbar toolbox and set it to match based on the characters typed in. Otherwise, you might have multiple picklists with sections of the original list. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "rebecca mann" wrote in message ... Greetings all, I am developing a workbook for data collection in a research project (which will be used from a PDA). We are tracking plant species that occur at a particular site and I have a picklist from which the user can choose one plant among about 200 that could potentially occur at the site. However, using this picklist on the PDA is cumbersome: the user has to scroll down the list by pointing the little stylus into the littler cell on the screen... this really slows down the data collection process. Is there a way to jump to a portion of the picklist instead, or does anyone have a creative idea as to how we might solve this probem? Thanks - I'll be glad for any advice!! *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** |
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