Excel & VB - Setting the minimum width of a ComboBox & AutoSize

Hello,

I was wondering if this is possible to do or not. I am pretty sure it’s not, but wanted to see if it was and someone else might know how. I am using Excel 2010 and everything is being done with VBA. What I would like to do is set a ComboBox with a minimum width size and then AutoSize if typed data becomes longer than the length of the ComboBox.

OK, so let me clarify some misconceptions or questions that I am going to get asked about, such as why I would want to allow users to type in a ComboBox. On another sheet, apart from the sheet that the ComboBox is on, I have a list of items. As items are typed in here the ComboBox is populated with the new item, I also have it sorting the list in alphabetical order and it spell checks them too, as they are being added.

I then have the code to also check for the longest length of text in each cell and the ComboBox will size to the longest length of text within its list, so it can fully be read in the dropdown.

I also want users to be able to type in the ComboBox for items that are not in the list already. The list is for just the most common items used, but often other miscellaneous stuff needs to be entered. I don’t want the miscellaneous stuff added to the list within the ComboBox, so I just want the user to be able to type in data within the ComboBox, but if it is used a lot they can add it to the list on the other sheet.

In case someone is wondering, I do have spellcheck working for the ComboBox when users type data in. All I did was make the cell that the ComboBox is over equal to the text in the ComboBox when the ComboBox is deactivated (LostFocus), then I spellcheck that cell, followed by making the ComboBox equal to the cell that was just spellchecked.

Anyway, as already mentioned I do have the ComboBox’s width set to the longest item in the list using code. Is there a way that I can somehow keep the ComboBox’s minimum width set to this size, but then the width will increase when the user is typing data in that becomes longer than what the box is currently set to? I am guessing this would be easy to do if I was to adjust it after the user finished typing (when the ComboBox LostFocus), but is it possible to do this while they are typing? Setting the AutoSize will not work, because it will ignore the size of the longest item in the list, and shrink to almost nothing, making it impossible to see the items in the list.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Zines