Search - autocomplete in drop down list - excel

I have two sheets in Excel:
Sheet A: Drop down list with source from Sheet B
Sheet B: One column with names:
NAMES
James Gordon
Andrea Michel
Third Name
The list is very long, but unfortunately when I click on the drop down list I can't search in the list.
I need to search in the drop down list, or jump to the character which is pressed.
Any suggestion how to start?

I used an embedded combo box in a worksheet to achieve this. I created a named range with the values that I wanted to include in the combo box, then using the properties window input the named_range into the "ListFillRange" property box. This will allow the drop down box to reference this list, however I never fully figured out how to make the named range dynamically update.
To allow the list to search for included values, you need to set the "MatchEntry" property to 1 - fmMatchEntryComplete. This should achieve your desired goal.

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If you filled the list box using the ListFillRange property, or otherwise used a contiguous worksheet range, the 3rd item in the listbox will be from the row of the 3rd cell in the range.
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where [Listindex] is the ListIndex of the selected list box item.
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The Value of a multi-column ComboBox will be the "key" value. You've presumably populated the dropdown from some list or array: use that same source to lookup the value corresponding to the selected key. Note the key/value wording: having the values in a Dictionary makes it very easy to retrieve the value of the second column.
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I'm looking for the solution in excel data validation for 2 drop down list.
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Can someone help me on this issue ?
I attach the sample file for my problem.
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thanks!
Sample File
Trying to do a two way I don't think is going to work in the way you are trying so I am not surprised the examples you found were for one-way. I am open to being corrected.
You could hack around it for example using two form control listboxes linked to the same cell so a selection in one updates the other.
Then because an item might be out of view listbox underneath have two cells which use the linked cell to index back into the source lists.
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You add two of these in to the sheet.
Right click format control on each one
Set the input range to the range containing your list of values for that listbox and set the linked cell e.g. G1
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