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    lonesoac0 is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Predictive Text in short text

    Hello all,

    I have a short text field that needs a little bit of predictability. I want to start typing a certain word and the field finishes my phrase. I only have about 7 key phrases that are common enough to be warranted to be "known" by the field. If need be the field needs to accept custom phrases as well. Any ideas?

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    Can have a table of these key phrases and a combobox to select them. The combobox AutoExpand will fill in with the first item from list that matches. Say you have items like:

    home is my castle
    home is where the heart is
    home sweet home

    If the items are sorted alphabetically, then as I type "home", the first item to match is "home is my castle". If I continue to type "home s" it will now match to "home sweet home" and I can quit typing if that's the item I want.

    Set the combobox LimitToList property to No and any input will be allowed.
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