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    Serhioromano is offline Novice
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    How to narrow list in lookup dropdown?

    Classic example. i have table Products and I have table Orders. They are connected with Lookup. When i add products to order on the form, I can expand list of Products and select one.

    now I want that this list of products get smaller as i start typing. I have for example 1000 products and search though them by scrolling dropdown list is complicated. But I know basic product names that could help.

    What is the solution in such a case?

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    Maybe you will find this link useful: http://allenbrowne.com/ser-32.html

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    Now i stack with autoexpand. I looked everywhere and cannot find this property anywhere.

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    In ac2013 it is the last property on the Data tab of the Property Sheet for the cbo.

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    Spent few hours here. It is not working. Combo box behave strange. Of course I took your suggested link as an idea and created my own code. But height does not adjust, and number of elements too. There should be better way. May be popup with table list with filter and then on select it inserts it there?

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    That's about as much help as I can give unless you want to post your db for analysis. If you do post your db then remove any sensitive data of course and do a Compact and Repair before zipping up the db and posting.

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    Oh wait a minute, you use ac2016 and I only have ac2013. It may not work.

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    Unfortunately my DB is in Russian. It will be hard to navigate.

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    You are probably right. Oh well.

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