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Using a drop down box selection to populate areas in a document
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I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website :
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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Thanks for replying Doug. The problem is that I can't create a form type
situation. The text from the drop down selection needs to slot into an ordinary sentence situation i.e. Staff from (organisation from drop down box selection) are all required to participate... Any other suggestions? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsof" wrote: See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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Hi again
My previous post was a bit premature! I have now it where the organisation name appears where it should (after selecting and saving the document) using a bookmark but the names of the organisations are all different lengths. Is it possible to make the space length variable? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsof" wrote: See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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The text should reflow to accommodate a name of any length.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi again My previous post was a bit premature! I have now it where the organisation name appears where it should (after selecting and saving the document) using a bookmark but the names of the organisations are all different lengths. Is it possible to make the space length variable? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsof" wrote: See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm
If you don't want the form to reflow to accommodate different text lengths, put the form field(s) in a (borderless) table with fixed cell dimensions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HelenS wrote: Thanks for replying Doug. The problem is that I can't create a form type situation. The text from the drop down selection needs to slot into an ordinary sentence situation i.e. Staff from (organisation from drop down box selection) are all required to participate... Any other suggestions? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsof" wrote: See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website : http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "HelenS" wrote in message ... Hi I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible or is there an alternative way of doing this? Thanks |
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