DropDownList ContentControl PlaceHolderText

[KWarner]

in Word 2007
I would like to be able to reset a dropdownlist to the placeholder text
using vba. Is this possible? I guess I would like ShowingPlaceholderText to
be read/write instead of read only.

 

[Greg Maxey]

I believe you simply select it from the list of dropdown items:

Sub ScratchMaco()
Dim oCC As ContentControl
Set oCC = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1)
oCC.DropdownListEntries(1).Select 'Where the first ListEntry is the
placeholdertext
End Sub

in Word 2007
I would like to be able to reset a dropdownlist to the placeholder
text using vba. Is this possible? I guess I would like
ShowingPlaceholderText to be read/write instead of read only.

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[KWarner]

I don't want the placeholdertext to be one of the items to be selected, and I
want it to be the grayed out style like the placeholdertext.

 

[KWarner]

for anyone who may be interested in how I solved this:

Dim cc As ContentControl
For Each cc In MainDoc.ContentControls
If cc.Type = wdContentControlDropdownList Then
cc.Type = wdContentControlComboBox
cc.Range = ""
cc.Type = wdContentControlDropdownList
End If
Next