In case you need an option in a pulldown which contains many items, it can be tedeous to scroll down the list box to get to the item you want. A better way is to use the build in Intellisense feature.
Just start typing any 'string part' of the item you are looking for. As you are typing the items shown in the pull down will start to filter down. If there are thousands of items in the pull down, there might be a slight delay.
The intelisense is case insensitive, and any part of the string will do (so you do not have to start typing the start of the string). Deleting the your typed charactes will remove the filter.
Intelligence is available for:
The following figure shows how different strings result in different results:
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