William wrote:
I have a document with a drop down form field. One of the options
has a typo I'd like to change, but I can't seem to do it in the Drop
Down Form Field Options dialog box. The item is one of those very
long webpage addresses so I'd like to find an easy way to change one
character in the address.
Can this be done?
It can be done, but not very easily. The only method of correcting dropdown
entries is to delete the existing one and then insert the edited one. The
difficult part is getting a copy of the existing entry so you can edit it.
Here are the steps:
- Uprotect the form.
- Double-click the dropdown field to open its Properties dialog, and copy
the content of the Bookmark box. In the dropdown list, click once on the
entry to be edited. Close the Properties dialog.
- Somewhere else in the form, press Ctrl+F9 to insert a pair of field
braces. Paste the bookmark name between the braces, and press F9 to update
the field. It should show the entry to be edited.
- Click on the field you just updated, and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink the
field -- that turns it into plain text.
- Make the editing change you need, and cut the resulting text to the
clipboard.
- Reopen the Properties dialog. Remove the incorrect entry, paste the
correct entry into the Add box, and use the up/down arrows to adjust the
order if necessary.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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