I've created a form and am having trouble getting the drop-down boxes to
behave like I want them too.

The user of the form should select an item from the drop down box, but I
want the result to be a code for the item. So, for example, if the user
chooses the item "black," once he/she tabs out of the field, the code "blk"
should populate that field. This will be true of most of the drop down boxes
in my form. I do not want to use the code itself in the drop down list,
because in most cases, the correlation will not be this simple.

I've tried a macro to accomplish this, and though the behavior is correct,
once the user moves out of the field, the result code (i.e. "blk") is added
to the list of available items in the drop down box.

Any ideas?

You did not show us the code for the macro that you are using, but there is
a problem with this sort of thing which is, what happens if the user needs
to change their selection? Can you live with a separate textbox being
populated with the code corresponding to the item selected in the DropDown
formfield?

Maybe you should be using a UserForm with a two column combobox or listbox
in it and then have the document populated with whatever it needs to be when
the user clicks on a command button on the form.

See the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm


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"kimee11972" wrote in message
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I've created a form and am having trouble getting the drop-down boxes to
behave like I want them too.

The user of the form should select an item from the drop down box, but I
want the result to be a code for the item. So, for example, if the user
chooses the item "black," once he/she tabs out of the field, the code
"blk"
should populate that field. This will be true of most of the drop down
boxes
in my form. I do not want to use the code itself in the drop down list,
because in most cases, the correlation will not be this simple.

I've tried a macro to accomplish this, and though the behavior is correct,
once the user moves out of the field, the result code (i.e. "blk") is
added
to the list of available items in the drop down box.

Any ideas?