IE keystroke or trick for selecting options in absurdly long option lists?

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AtomicBob

I work for an org (bank) that uses a web interface which on occassion
has option selection menus inside pages which contain over a *thousand*
items. I already use the "press the first letter of the item" trick to
get into the correct letter range, but this only allows one to select
based on the first letter of the option alone - and if there are 500
entries in the "A" range, even holding down the A key to eventually
scroll to the option I want can take a long time.

Aggravating this issue is the fact that the vertical space for the
options only shows 5 of the items at a time, so "Page Down" doesn't get
one very far either.

Is there another way to select more specifically? If I type two or
three letters in quick succession to narrow my range, it doesn't work -
just takes me to a different letter of the alphabet.

Hope I explained this clearly, and thanks a bunch for any answers.
 
Hi Bob,

Try

1. Listbox i/o combobox which will give you a bigger screen footprint for
your list.
2. A custom ActiveX control that mimics the behavior of a Winform combobox.
3. See the MS Stock ticker control sample on MSDN or the MoneyCentral stock
selection web interface for examples of presenting large selection lists to
users.
4. DHTML textbox and listbox combination to scroll through the selection
list based on the keystrokes entered in the textbox.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Regards.
 
I am sorry, I should have clarified, I am not trying to build the
interface, I am just trying to use it. :-) I wish I had built it! I
have no authority to change it, unfortunately.

Thanks for your ideas nonetheless,
Bob
 
i hear you, i feel for you :)
- try to suggest to the ones who designed to be a bit more human about it
(sounds the best solution)
- press PadeDown once u get to the range
- personally i press the letter to get the range, then scroll down using te
mouse wheel, that is reaaaally the fastest way to scroll down (of course, in
IE7, that behavior have changed, which is in essense a good move, but not to
you sir :))
 
Does holding the 'shift' key and type the first 3 or 4 letters work?

It works in windows explorer, just wondering if the same apply's here.

Ray
 
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