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Create a list box on a table cell
I have a set of reports to complete which comprises of multiple tables which
all have different content. One of the cells in each table is for "making comments" most of which are repetitive. So after the first 10 or so I find repeating myself.... What I want is to able to use a combo box or a list box to select a comment that I have already made in another report and then possibly edit that comment slightly (eg., ad the persons given name within the comment). Sometimes I might want to add two or three repeated comments in the same cell to make a "sensible" sentence. I also want to be able to add new comments as well as select previous comments. I think then its likely to be a combo box in the cell? I have no idea how to do this in word and my VBA experience to date has been in EXCEL not word. So I guess what I want to do is when the "comments" cell is selected I want to be able to add a new comment, choose from existing comments and then edit the comments so chosen. At the moment I am making a separte document with all the customised comments for each person and then cutting and pasting into the table cells. Very timeconsuming. What I am asking appears to be a daunting task and maybe its not possible? Would be grateful for any advice receieved... |
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Create a list box on a table cell
Another option is to use autotext with coded comments using 2 letters and
digits Eg., sc1 = Is able to perform at a high level unsupervised "Terry" wrote: I have a set of reports to complete which comprises of multiple tables which all have different content. One of the cells in each table is for "making comments" most of which are repetitive. So after the first 10 or so I find repeating myself.... What I want is to able to use a combo box or a list box to select a comment that I have already made in another report and then possibly edit that comment slightly (eg., ad the persons given name within the comment). Sometimes I might want to add two or three repeated comments in the same cell to make a "sensible" sentence. I also want to be able to add new comments as well as select previous comments. I think then its likely to be a combo box in the cell? I have no idea how to do this in word and my VBA experience to date has been in EXCEL not word. So I guess what I want to do is when the "comments" cell is selected I want to be able to add a new comment, choose from existing comments and then edit the comments so chosen. At the moment I am making a separte document with all the customised comments for each person and then cutting and pasting into the table cells. Very timeconsuming. What I am asking appears to be a daunting task and maybe its not possible? Would be grateful for any advice receieved... |
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Create a list box on a table cell
This would be terribly complicated to set up if you had to do it
exactly as you envision -- Word just doesn't have the right tools for it. The best way to go about this is to save your comments as AutoText entries (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom.../AutoText.htm). Give each one a name that's meaningful to you. The entries are stored in a template (Normal.dot or another template of your choice, as explained in the article). You can insert any one or more entries in any table cell, and then edit the resulting text as you like. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:09:01 -0800, Terry wrote: I have a set of reports to complete which comprises of multiple tables which all have different content. One of the cells in each table is for "making comments" most of which are repetitive. So after the first 10 or so I find repeating myself.... What I want is to able to use a combo box or a list box to select a comment that I have already made in another report and then possibly edit that comment slightly (eg., ad the persons given name within the comment). Sometimes I might want to add two or three repeated comments in the same cell to make a "sensible" sentence. I also want to be able to add new comments as well as select previous comments. I think then its likely to be a combo box in the cell? I have no idea how to do this in word and my VBA experience to date has been in EXCEL not word. So I guess what I want to do is when the "comments" cell is selected I want to be able to add a new comment, choose from existing comments and then edit the comments so chosen. At the moment I am making a separte document with all the customised comments for each person and then cutting and pasting into the table cells. Very timeconsuming. What I am asking appears to be a daunting task and maybe its not possible? Would be grateful for any advice receieved... |
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