Speed up data entry and validation with AutoComplete for dropdown lists in Excel for Windows

This is absolutely ludicrous.  “Depends on feedback”… 20+ years of users asking to replace click and scroll with search autocomplete in a dropdown. Millions of users and they don’t know?

Daily, we are pushed to Google Sheets, where this works without any special settings. It just works. Getting this to work with online Excel is a chore, if on the right build. I understand that Google started with SAAS while MS is desktop and trying to catch up with the SAAS. Excruciatingly slow. Especially when dealing with clients and customers outside our tenant.  We constantly fall back to Google for ease of use.

Microsoft’s strongest features remain in its desktop products. I can’t design a specific form of mine that only works online. I need the user to be able to also open it in desktop. Type and search should be a basic feature without any thought.

They teased us and then pulled it with NO EXPLANATION. All forums that I can find are ignored by MS staff.

Crickets.