excel: drop dpwn boxes problem!!

[birchy]

Ok so i know you can do it nut how?:

a drop down box that you can enter data into to search and enter your own data.

please say someone can help.

 

[techmanbd]

Combobox

 

[birchy]

yeah but you cant edit the text with a combo box.

 

[whosyodaddy]

yeah but you cant edit the text with a combo box.

Of course you can... It's all in the code
Edit The Properties, If It's not there then there definately is code.

 

[Volte]

To do the searching bit, you need to code it yourself. Here's a bit of code I wrote to do it (just put this in your keypress event of the combo):

If Not (e.KeyChar = ControlChars.Back) And _
    Not (e.KeyChar = ControlChars.Tab) And _
      (cbo.Text.Length > 0) Then

            Dim itemIndex As Integer = -1
            Dim i As New String
            Dim index As Integer = 0

            For Each i In cbo.Items
                If i.ToUpper.StartsWith(cbo.Text.ToUpper) Then
                    itemIndex = index
                    Exit For
                End If
                index += 1
            Next

            If itemIndex > -1 Then
                Dim oldText As String = cbo.Text
                cbo.Text &= cbo.Items(itemIndex).Substring(cbo.Text.Length)
                cbo.SelectionStart = oldText.Length
                cbo.SelectionLength = cbo.Text.Length - oldText.Length
            End If
        End If

You'll obviously need to modify cbo to fit the name of your combo.