how can I copy and paste text in to a drop down form field

[Jeff Leggett]

after creating a drop down form field I am able to insert text by typing &
adding however I would like to paste text in as some of the text is rather
long - I am unable to do this - any help would be much appreciated - thanks
Jefff

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Assuming that you are talking about adding Drop-down items in the Drop-Down
Form Field Options dialog, you can either right click when you have the
select in the Drop-down item control or use Ctrl+V and the data that you
have copied to the clipboard will be inserted into the control.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can paste them all into a macro and run the macro to populate the field
e.g. for Dropdown1

Sub PopulateDD1()
Dim oDD As DropDown
Set oDD = ActiveDocument.FormFields("DropDown1").DropDown
With oDD.ListEntries
.Add "Apples"
.Add "Apricots"
.Add "Artichokes"
End With
End Sub

Nore there is a limit of 25 entries to a dropdown field.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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