Repeating an entry from a content control
Is it absolutely necessary to protect your document? As you have noticed,
content controls weren't intended for use with protected documents.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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On Monday, August 27, 2012 11:05:39 AM UTC+1, Lisa Wilke-Thissen wrote:
The 4th alternative could be: Copy the picker content control. Then
paste special as link, and as unformatted text. A LINK field will be
created (instead of REF), that is updated automatically, when changing
the date.
For a brief and glorious moment, I thought that was the answer to all my
prayers ... but it doesn't update the links when the document is protected
(not even when you print preview or close the document and re-open it),
and there's no way to manually update them either.
How have Microsoft allowed such a shambolic mess of content controls to be
released to the public? They may do lots of flashy stuff, but so many
basic things that have worked with form fields since time immemorial are
irreparably broken :-(
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