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Form Drop-Down Boxes
I created a couple of forms in Word 2000. Now we have upgraded to 2003. The
drop-down boxes no longer work. When a user clicks on them, the programmer dialog box comes up (add, remove, activate, etc .), not just the list of available choices. I've tried turning on and off the various protections under tools and the form itself but nothing seems to work. Activating a drop-down box should be an easy procedure. |
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Form Drop-Down Boxes
Hi ?B?RGlhbm5h?=,
I created a couple of forms in Word 2000. Now we have upgraded to 2003. The drop-down boxes no longer work. When a user clicks on them, the programmer dialog box comes up (add, remove, activate, etc .), not just the list of available choices. I've tried turning on and off the various protections under tools and the form itself but nothing seems to work. Activating a drop-down box should be an easy procedure. This isn't ringing any bells... Are these dropdowns from the Forms or from the Controls Toolbox toolbar? Can you please describe the "programmer dialog box" in more detail? I'm not recognizing what you mean by that. Add, remove, activate WHAT? What's the title across the top of this dialog box? Please also describe the steps you've taken to try to protect the document. In Word 2003 the only thing under "Tools" displays the Protection task pane. Is that happening on your installation? If yes, please list the steps you've tried in the Task Pane. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Form Drop-Down Boxes
Thanks, Cindy, for your response. The "programmer" box is entitled
"Drop-Down Form Field Options." Since I had a limited number of drop-downs with a limited number of choices, it was just easier for me to delete and re-insert the drop-downs instead of trying to figure out why the drop-downs did not work when converting from Office 2000 to 2003. Dianna "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?RGlhbm5h?=, I created a couple of forms in Word 2000. Now we have upgraded to 2003. The drop-down boxes no longer work. When a user clicks on them, the programmer dialog box comes up (add, remove, activate, etc .), not just the list of available choices. I've tried turning on and off the various protections under tools and the form itself but nothing seems to work. Activating a drop-down box should be an easy procedure. This isn't ringing any bells... Are these dropdowns from the Forms or from the Controls Toolbox toolbar? Can you please describe the "programmer dialog box" in more detail? I'm not recognizing what you mean by that. Add, remove, activate WHAT? What's the title across the top of this dialog box? Please also describe the steps you've taken to try to protect the document. In Word 2003 the only thing under "Tools" displays the Protection task pane. Is that happening on your installation? If yes, please list the steps you've tried in the Task Pane. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Dianna
The "programmer" box is entitled "Drop-Down Form Field Options." Since I had a limited number of drop-downs with a limited number of choices, it was just easier for me to delete and re-insert the drop-downs instead of trying to figure out why the drop-downs did not work when converting from Office 2000 to 2003. Thanks for letting me know that this worked. Apparently, the internal file structures of the Word form were damaged at some point if this solved the problem. Hadn't ever heard of this happening, before, in quite this way. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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