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Drop down field - how to save selection
Hi everyone,
When a completed protected form is returned how do I save the selection from the drop down? What I'm thinking is that it would be easy to change drop down selection accidentally. Cheers -- Mifty |
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Drop down field - how to save selection
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:29:01 -0700, Mifty
wrote: Hi everyone, When a completed protected form is returned how do I save the selection from the drop down? What I'm thinking is that it would be easy to change drop down selection accidentally. Cheers You could first unprotect the form, then select the dropdown (or other form field) and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink the field. That changes the field into plain text that will never update again; in the case of a dropdown, that text will be the currently selected value. You don't have to unlink fields one at a time -- after unprotecting, press Ctrl+A to select the whole document and then Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink all the fields. -- 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. |
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Drop down field - how to save selection
Thank you Jay,
Yvonne -- Mifty "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:29:01 -0700, Mifty wrote: Hi everyone, When a completed protected form is returned how do I save the selection from the drop down? What I'm thinking is that it would be easy to change drop down selection accidentally. Cheers You could first unprotect the form, then select the dropdown (or other form field) and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink the field. That changes the field into plain text that will never update again; in the case of a dropdown, that text will be the currently selected value. You don't have to unlink fields one at a time -- after unprotecting, press Ctrl+A to select the whole document and then Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink all the fields. -- 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. |
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