Drop down Month selection?

[demonthrall]

Here's another one I cannot find while searching this site:

I have a drop down menu from which to choose the month (January, February, etc..)

How can I go about choosing the current month?

Thanks again vets!

[Marcus Tettmar]

Usually you just "type" it. Many drop downs and list objects accept "drill down". Try it manually. TAB to the drop down and then type a month with the keyboard. Just type the text of one of the list items on the keyboard. You'll probably find it gets selected.

Send>October

Failing that just press down the required number of times. E.g. assuming a sensible order (January thru December) with the list initialy on January, you'd press down 9 times to select October:

Press Down * 9

First of course you need to get keyboard focus to the drop down. Do this by pressing tab the required number of times, e.g.:

Press Tab * 2

This is all covered in:

http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/10/27/t ... le-macros/

"You can often select an item in a list box or combo box simply by typing the item you want to select."

http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2006/01/16/k ... shortcuts/

"many list boxes and combo boxes have a kind of “drill downâ€