Hi David,
That is a Content Control. New feature in Word 2007.
To add you own Content Control to your document manually, you can:
1. Press the Office Button in upper left corner of Word 2007 window, then
choose Word Options.
2. In the Word Options dialog, choose Popular tab.
3. In Top options for working with Word, make sure the "Show Developer tab
in the Ribbon" is checked.
4. Go back to the document, select the Developer tab.
5. In the Controls group of the Developer tab, you'll see controls like
Rich Text, Combo Box, Date Picker...
6. Click on one of the controls, it will be inserted into your document. In
your case, the Drop-Down List control is what you want.
Then you can select the control, and click the Properties button on the
ribbon to customize it.
You can also add Content Controls using Word OM. Here is the VBA sample:
Selection.Range.ContentControls.Add (wdContentControlDropdownList)
Selection.ParentContentControl.LockContentControl = True
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Clear
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Add Text:="Option 1", _
Value:="Option 1"
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Add Text:="Option 2", _
Value:="Option 2"
Selection.ParentContentControl.DropdownListEntries.Add Text:="Option 3", _
Value:="Option 3"
You can use the OM in a similar way in your add-in code so your add-in can
have access to the Content Controls at runtime.
If you have any further questions regarding this issue, please feel free to
post here.
Regards,
Jie Wang (
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