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Drop down boxes in forms
Is it possible to enter text in front of one entry in a drop down box?
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-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Cindy" wrote in message ... Is it possible to enter text in front of one entry in a drop down box? |
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Assuming you mean that you have a drop down with some choices, and
you'd like to be able to write in a new choice on the fly as you're filling out a form...Suzanne is correct that you cannot do that with a normal Drop Down form field. However, if you want to get a little more advanced, you can use a Combo Box ActiveX control from the Control Toolbox and, with some VBA programming code, you can use the control as a Combo Box that allows you to make it look like a drop down, but it will allow you to add new information other than that which is predefined in the original list of options. If you don't understand VBA, it might be a bit of a challenge to get it working. But you can find more info by opening Word, hitting Alt + F11 to open the VB editor, within the editor...click Help Microsoft Visual Basic help. Granted, you will have had to do a custom install to add this VBA help to the editor. But if you want to go that far, you can then type COMBO BOX in the VBA help and you'll get more info. Or...you can check out this MSDN article on ActiveX controls in Word: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...thcontrols.asp Good luck! Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified Editor/TechTrax Ezine Free Tutorials: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Optimize your business docs: www.mousetrax.com/consulting Learn VBA the easy way: www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:51:03 -0800, "?B?Q2luZHk=?=" wrote: Is it possible to enter text in front of one entry in a drop down box? |
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