Select Drop Down Form Field with first letter

[aehan]

Does anyone know if it is possible to programme a drop down form field so
that the user can select their choice by typing the first letter of the word?

I have a document that collates responses from form fields using VBA to
collate them, and it works well and does what I want (cross fingers).
However, it's so annoying for the users to have to tab onto each field and
then click on the arrow to select the response they want. It would be great
to make them more intelligent, for example after tabbing on the the field the
user could type Y and the word Yes would pop up, for example like it does in
Access! Is there any way of doing that? Unfortunately my own intelligence
doesn't stretch that far.

Thanks for all your help.
Aehan

 

[Jay Freedman]

Does anyone know if it is possible to programme a drop down form
field so that the user can select their choice by typing the first
letter of the word?

I have a document that collates responses from form fields using VBA
to collate them, and it works well and does what I want (cross
fingers). However, it's so annoying for the users to have to tab onto
each field and then click on the arrow to select the response they
want. It would be great to make them more intelligent, for example
after tabbing on the the field the user could type Y and the word Yes
would pop up, for example like it does in Access! Is there any way
of doing that? Unfortunately my own intelligence doesn't stretch
that far.

Thanks for all your help.
Aehan

Normally, after tabbing to the field, you could press Alt+down arrow to open
the dropdown list instead of clicking the arrow. Then typing a letter will
select the first entry that starts with that letter.

If you put this macro into the template:

Sub DDentry()
SendKeys "%{DOWN}"
End Sub

and assign the macro as the entry macro for the dropdown field, it will
automatically simulate pressing Alt+down arrow, so tabbing or clicking into
the field will open the list, and all you need is the letter to choose an
entry.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[aehan]

Hi Jay

Thank you very much, that really helps a lot!

Have a great weekend
Aehan