• Developer For Excel 2016 Autocomplete Drop Down Menu
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• Developer For Excel 2016 Autocomplete Drop Down Menu

Feb 03, 2010 There are other ways to create a drop down list though, and one of those options might work better in your worksheet. We'll compare these types of Excel drop down lists: Data Validation List. Form Control Combo Box. ActiveX Control Combo Box. Create a Searchable Drop Down List. If you want to create a searchable drop down list in Excel, you just need to do the following steps: #1 go to DEVELOPER tab, click Insert command Under Controls group, and select Combo Box button from the ActiveX Controls section. #2 Move your cusor to the worksheet and draw the combo box.

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Auto Complete Typing in an Excel Data Validation List

Developer For Excel 2016 Autocomplete Drop Down Menu

Data Validation

Those that have used Data Validationwill know that it is a very handy feature, especially the List option. The Listoption allows us to have a cell show a drop-down arrow, which the user can thenselect from.

Draw-Back

However, when we do the above we must either scroll to the needed itemin the Validation list, or type the whole word. What would be really nice is ifExcel would AutoComplete based on our list! Unfortunately no such standardfeature exists in Excel.

The Solution

1. Go to Tools>Options - Edit and checkEnableAutoComplete for cell values
2. Move your list of items is in the range immediately above the Validationcell.
3. Hide the rows above your Validation cell.

Now, as you type Excel will look at the list above the Validation celland AutoComplete based on it.

List is Dynamic and/or Resides on Another Worksheet

Excel

Lets say your list is on Sheet2 and you wish to use the ValidationList with AutoComplete on Sheet1.

On Sheet1 A1 Enter =Sheet2!A1 and copy down including as many sparerows as needed (say 300 rows total). Hide these rows and use this formula in theRefers to: for a dynamicnamed range called MyList:

=OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,0,0,MATCH('*',Sheet1!$A$1:$A$300,-1),1)

Developer For Excel 2016 Autocomplete Drop Down Menu

Now in the cell immediately below the last hidden row use Data Validation andfor the List Source use =MyList

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