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Auto Complete

Spread offers a customizable auto complete (type ahead) feature that can be used with user entry in editable text cells.



For example, when you type a letter in a highlighted cell, if a match is found the spreadsheet will show you the suggestions that match. You can change the settings for auto complete and apply them to any column in the spreadsheet.

First you set the mode for automatic completion, as shown in the figure above. The options include whether to suggest a list of possible completions, a drop-down list of possible completions, both, or none.

Second, you can set the source of the suggestions and drop-down list. The source is the list of items that are considered for completion. You can create a custom source and define your own list of items or you can set various system sources.



"As a long time user of your Spread COM product I have always been pleased with the flexibility and user friendly aspects of the control and it is great to see that your Windows Forms control continues this tradition!

Now that you are part of the same company which created ActiveReports (another product I have been a user of for a long time) I look forward to creating feature rich applications which will benefit my customers and my company. Excited to get started!"

Jeff Penchoff
Manager of Software Development
Asset Systems, Inc
http://www.assetsystems.com