Using a drop down box selection to populate areas in a document

[HelenS]

Hi

I am creating a document which will be accessed by 3+ organisations via
their websites. I would like to use a drop down box at the beginning of the
document for them to select their appropriate organisational name which would
then populate the document with that name where necessary. Is that possible
or is there an alternative way of doing this?

Thanks

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

See the following pages of fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm


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Hope this helps.

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

 

[HelenS]

Thanks for replying Doug. The problem is that I can't create a form type
situation. The text from the drop down selection needs to slot into an
ordinary sentence situation i.e. Staff from (organisation from drop down box
selection) are all required to participate...

Any other suggestions?

 

[HelenS]

Hi again

My previous post was a bit premature! I have now it where the organisation
name appears where it should (after selecting and saving the document) using
a bookmark but the names of the organisations are all different lengths. Is
it possible to make the space length variable?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The text should reflow to accommodate a name of any length.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm
If you don't want the form to reflow to accommodate different text lengths,
put the form field(s) in a (borderless) table with fixed cell dimensions.

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