Solutions you find should work as is or with minor tweaking provided the solutions do not rely on Active-X controls, which are not supported on the Mac and won't be until someone ports them (they're open source). The search I did was: įirst, VBA is supported in Excel 2011. I might be wrong, and I am about to test some of the solutions provided. From past experience, I recall VBA solutions will not work on Mac. I did find many discussions about this functionality, but as far as I can tell the answers all related to using VBA on Excel for Windows. What I'd like to know is if there is any way to convert the validation list into some kind of complete-as-you-type drop-down list? With many thousands of entries, it is very tedious to search through the list for each entry. What I was mistakenly anticipating is that as I start typing 'av' (for example) the list will drill down to the 'AVL - Another One' entry. In a cell I have that list set as a Validation list. What I was expecting is that when I set up those lists as validation lists for cell input, I would be able to just start typing and the list would move to any valid entries. I have lists with in excess of 10,000 entries.
so I am hoping an Excel pro can prove otherwise. I found nothing, so I am thinking it's not possible. I've looked high and low for a solution to this.
