Macro Needed

[Dustin]

I am working in Microsoft Word, we have a permit form that has a dropdown box
that has two options either Full LDP or Perimeter LDP. I want the following
to be displayed in a text field in the form later on. the text field is
text19. How can i write an IF then statement that recognizes which option was
selected from the dropdown box and then displays "This permit is for
construction of perimeter erosion controls ONLY." in the text19 field?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

To start with, you should assign meaningful bookmark names to your
formfields as it will make your macro coding much easier to understand.

To do what you want to do, you would need to run a macro containing the
following code on exit from the DropDown formField

With ActiveDocument
If .FormFields("LDPDropDown").Result = "Perimeter LDP" then
.FormFields("LDPText").Result = "This permit is for construction of
perimeter erosion controls ONLY."
Else
.FormFields("LDPText").Result = "Something Else"
End If
End With

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you replace the 'Text19' field with a conditional field and the dropdown
is Dropdown1 and you check the calculate on exit check box of the Dropdown
field, you don't need a macro.

{ IF{ Dropdown1 } = "Perimeter*" "This permit is for construction of
perimeter erosion controls ONLY" "The text for full" }

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