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Multiple item entry into Drop Down Lists
I'm building forms. I have drop down lists with 125 items. Is there a way
to add them all at one entry, a copy and paste approach, or do I have do each one as a separate add? |
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Multiple item entry into Drop Down Lists
If you're using dropdown form fields, you can't add more than 25 items,
either one at a time or in groups. The workaround is to make a userform containing a combo box or a list box, and display the userform on entry to a text form field. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306258. -- 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. gary wrote: I'm building forms. I have drop down lists with 125 items. Is there a way to add them all at one entry, a copy and paste approach, or do I have do each one as a separate add? |
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Hi Gary,
AFAIK, unless you have a list somewhere that you could process via a macro, you'll have to add the entries one at a time. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "gary" wrote in message ... I'm building forms. I have drop down lists with 125 items. Is there a way to add them all at one entry, a copy and paste approach, or do I have do each one as a separate add? |
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First I'm using Word 2007 which I should have mentioned in the first post. I
managed to work out most of this but I'm still short on getting the data entered. I have the text field form established but can't seem to get the data inserted. Since I did this with 2007 I did it similar but not necessarily the same as the 2002 instructions. Is there something I've missed or done incorrectly? "Jay Freedman" wrote: If you're using dropdown form fields, you can't add more than 25 items, either one at a time or in groups. The workaround is to make a userform containing a combo box or a list box, and display the userform on entry to a text form field. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306258. -- 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. gary wrote: I'm building forms. I have drop down lists with 125 items. Is there a way to add them all at one entry, a copy and paste approach, or do I have do each one as a separate add? |
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Word 2007 has a new kind of dropdown, one of the new content controls. Did you
use the button whose tooltip says "Drop-Down List" (that's a content control) or the dropdown from the Legacy Controls button? The answer will determine how to proceed. You can add all the items to a dropdown content control with a macro (although that will need more details about where you have the information now, and where in the form to find the content control). If it's a legacy dropdown, no more than 25 items can be added to it, no matter what method you try; you would need a userform as I said before. On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:54:04 -0700, gary wrote: First I'm using Word 2007 which I should have mentioned in the first post. I managed to work out most of this but I'm still short on getting the data entered. I have the text field form established but can't seem to get the data inserted. Since I did this with 2007 I did it similar but not necessarily the same as the 2002 instructions. Is there something I've missed or done incorrectly? "Jay Freedman" wrote: If you're using dropdown form fields, you can't add more than 25 items, either one at a time or in groups. The workaround is to make a userform containing a combo box or a list box, and display the userform on entry to a text form field. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306258. -- 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. gary wrote: I'm building forms. I have drop down lists with 125 items. Is there a way to add them all at one entry, a copy and paste approach, or do I have do each one as a separate add? |
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