Word97: How to change the color of drop-down items?

[Kevin Trout]

HI...
In the 'Drop-Down Form Fields Options' window, how may
one change the color of a drop-down item/text? Is a macro
necessary?

Best wishes,
Kevin Trout

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe this is possible. The dropdown is a menu and formatted like
any other menu in Word/Windows.

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[Mark Tangard]

Unless I'm forgetting something the only way you could get this
sort of capability is in a ComboBox control in a full-fledged
userform. (A userform is a custom dialog box you build in the
Visual Basic Editor. It can be used to do some of the same
sorts of things as a protected form (what you're using). It's
more involved to learn & build, but also far more powerful and
flexible. The BackColor and ForeColor properties let you set
various color options for these dropdowns.

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm
http://www.speakeasy.org/~mtangard/userforms.html

Hmm. I guess you could also get it by embedding an ActiveX
ComboBox in a document (if you wanted to be assured of major
frustrations down the road....).