Fill-ins with Dropdown lists?

[zSplash]

Is it possible to have a mailmerge fillin with a dropdown list? How about
if the dropdown is identified programmatically? It would be great!

TIA

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi ZSplash,

Is it possible to have a mailmerge fillin with a dropdown list? How about
if the dropdown is identified programmatically?

The exact answer to your question is no. But, if you can describe in a bit
more detail what you have in mind AND in which version of Word it should
work, there *might* be a workaround (involving VBA)...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[zSplash]

Thanks, Cindy.
Word 2002, SP3.
I want to have choices (rather than require them to mistype in fillins)
like:
Currently have:
{FILLIN "Enter type:" \d "student/teacher/parent" \o }
Want to have a drop down:
{FILLIN "Enter type:" \d [[dropdown of choices:
student/teacher/parent]]" \o }

Appreciate any direction you can give me, Cindy!

st.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi ZSplash,

Word 2002, SP3.
I want to have choices (rather than require them to mistype in fillins)
like:
Currently have:
{FILLIN "Enter type:" \d "student/teacher/parent" \o }
Want to have a drop down:
{FILLIN "Enter type:" \d [[dropdown of choices:
student/teacher/parent]]" \o }

Appreciate any direction you can give me, Cindy!

I'm afraid your only possibility - if you want a "popup box" - is going to
be a UserForm. Or you need form fields or ActiveX controls in the
document.

Fillin fields are, like, maybe 20 years old. Things weren't so fancy back
then

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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