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    Combo Box to Filter by Merged Column Headers

    Hello All

    Wishing you all a Prosperous New Year!

    I have a sheet attached which displays a list of company names as merged column headers. I have frozen the panes between E4 so the company header names and products in columns A:D are always visible upon scrolling. The company header names start at column E and go right through to column BV. This is a pain when trying to search for a certain company header as means lots of manual mouse scrolling. I know that if I use Excel built in ‘find’ function and specify a company name, Excel will locate and move the column right where I want it to be (which is column E4 as mentioned above) . However, using the built in ‘find’ function only works for exact matches.
    What I would like to do is create a combo box that acts as a dymanic search, so as I start typing in the box, it shows all of my column headers as a list and begins to filter down that list as I complete typing, until I have my exact match. Then (like the built in ‘find’ function) will display my column result.
    I know this is possible when using rows but I have no idea how to do this by columns, let alone merged ones.
    Could anybody help with this?
    Many thanks
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    Re: Combo Box to Filter by Merged Column Headers

    Check it out.

    Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
    Dim fRng As Range
    Set fRng = Range("D2:BV2").Find(what:=Me.ComboBox1, lookat:=xlWhole)
    Application.Goto Reference:=fRng, Scroll:=True
    
    End Sub

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    Re: Combo Box to Filter by Merged Column Headers

    Quote Originally Posted by davesexcel View Post
    Check it out.

    Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
    Dim fRng As Range
    Set fRng = Range("D2:BV2").Find(what:=Me.ComboBox1, lookat:=xlWhole)
    Application.Goto Reference:=fRng, Scroll:=True
    
    End Sub
    davesexcel, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. Can I ask how did you get to do it so quickly? I've been using excel on and off for years and I still cannot get passed the VBA basics, just can't seem to progress. You have saved me a lot of heart ache. Legend....and Happy New Year

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