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I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000:
Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided.
 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Thanks for your quick reply!
So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Dang, no, Mary. I'm sorry. Have you considered using autotext somehow? Can
you use macros? ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Sweet, Graham.
 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Good morning & thanks to you both! I will try tonight & let you know.
Best, mary "Anne Troy" wrote: Sweet, Graham. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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OK, I'm having a hard time.
I've pasted the code into the Macro window & saved it. What I don't understand is where to put the conditional field What I want is: - in a drop down to have a long string 50 characters & it needs to display & - when selected, simply inserts that string into the cell of the table. So ... if the string is: Company & Company Long Text & More Long Text - the & appear in the drop down but (1) the string is too long and (2) the &s do not appear in the text. Graham - is this what your website is telling me to try? I don't want files inserted - just text. Help! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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I think what Graham is trying to tell you is that you MUST do it this way.
Those files are just another method of storing the text you want to use, and I imagine that the drop-down is working like a "menu" more so than it providing the actual text that's being inserted. Maybe that'll get you going. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... OK, I'm having a hard time. I've pasted the code into the Macro window & saved it. What I don't understand is where to put the conditional field What I want is: - in a drop down to have a long string 50 characters & it needs to display & - when selected, simply inserts that string into the cell of the table. So ... if the string is: Company & Company Long Text & More Long Text - the & appear in the drop down but (1) the string is too long and (2) the &s do not appear in the text. Graham - is this what your website is telling me to try? I don't want files inserted - just text. Help! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Anne thx. But that can't work. This is a huge global company. They won't
buy into having to ship a form document and it's supporting text document just to get a text string inserted. So ... I need to find another solution. Maybe I'm just SOL. Mary "Anne Troy" wrote: I think what Graham is trying to tell you is that you MUST do it this way. Those files are just another method of storing the text you want to use, and I imagine that the drop-down is working like a "menu" more so than it providing the actual text that's being inserted. Maybe that'll get you going. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... OK, I'm having a hard time. I've pasted the code into the Macro window & saved it. What I don't understand is where to put the conditional field What I want is: - in a drop down to have a long string 50 characters & it needs to display & - when selected, simply inserts that string into the cell of the table. So ... if the string is: Company & Company Long Text & More Long Text - the & appear in the drop down but (1) the string is too long and (2) the &s do not appear in the text. Graham - is this what your website is telling me to try? I don't want files inserted - just text. Help! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Then do this, Mary.
Create each entry as an autotext entry. Instead of inserting files, have his macro run your autotext entry. Autotext entries MUST be stored in templates (DOT files), so beware of that if you had other ideas. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... Anne thx. But that can't work. This is a huge global company. They won't buy into having to ship a form document and it's supporting text document just to get a text string inserted. So ... I need to find another solution. Maybe I'm just SOL. Mary "Anne Troy" wrote: I think what Graham is trying to tell you is that you MUST do it this way. Those files are just another method of storing the text you want to use, and I imagine that the drop-down is working like a "menu" more so than it providing the actual text that's being inserted. Maybe that'll get you going. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... OK, I'm having a hard time. I've pasted the code into the Macro window & saved it. What I don't understand is where to put the conditional field What I want is: - in a drop down to have a long string 50 characters & it needs to display & - when selected, simply inserts that string into the cell of the table. So ... if the string is: Company & Company Long Text & More Long Text - the & appear in the drop down but (1) the string is too long and (2) the &s do not appear in the text. Graham - is this what your website is telling me to try? I don't want files inserted - just text. Help! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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Thx. Anne. I'll suggest that to them.
Even though this is a huge global company, they've got it in for .dot files. They don't like the FileNew concept. Not all users use Word as they should - they just do it the way they're used to. Thx. again for your support, persistence & suggestions. Mary "Anne Troy" wrote: Then do this, Mary. Create each entry as an autotext entry. Instead of inserting files, have his macro run your autotext entry. Autotext entries MUST be stored in templates (DOT files), so beware of that if you had other ideas. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... Anne thx. But that can't work. This is a huge global company. They won't buy into having to ship a form document and it's supporting text document just to get a text string inserted. So ... I need to find another solution. Maybe I'm just SOL. Mary "Anne Troy" wrote: I think what Graham is trying to tell you is that you MUST do it this way. Those files are just another method of storing the text you want to use, and I imagine that the drop-down is working like a "menu" more so than it providing the actual text that's being inserted. Maybe that'll get you going. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... OK, I'm having a hard time. I've pasted the code into the Macro window & saved it. What I don't understand is where to put the conditional field What I want is: - in a drop down to have a long string 50 characters & it needs to display & - when selected, simply inserts that string into the cell of the table. So ... if the string is: Company & Company Long Text & More Long Text - the & appear in the drop down but (1) the string is too long and (2) the &s do not appear in the text. Graham - is this what your website is telling me to try? I don't want files inserted - just text. Help! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary Sasiela wrote: Thanks for your quick reply! So ... if I use the word "and", that's fine but my text length in the field is restricted. My text exceeds 50 characters. Any tricks up your sleeve??? Pleeeezzze?? And thx. again! "Anne Troy" wrote: A known issue, Mary. No workaround is provided. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=125892 ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mary Sasiela" wrote in message ... I need to have the following text in a drop-down field in Word 2000: Text & Text If I place &&& in between the 2 words, it displays correctly in the drop-down. But once the user selects this one, the & is dropped altogether. What am I doing wrong? Many thx. in advance. Mary |
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