Drop Down Fields (Word 97)

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Can you extend the amount of characters you can add to each choice in
a drop-down form field. We want to have a choice of different
sentences rather than just individual words. If not – any ideas how
we can do this?

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Carolyn,

Through the DropDown Properties dialog box you can add upto 50 characters.

If you need more than 50 characters, you will need to add them VIA VBA.

This is the line of code I used to add the data to the Drop Down:

doc.FormFields("Dropdown1").DropDown.ListEntries.Add "This is a really really " _
  & "really really really really relallyreally really really really really long " _
  & "sentence.This is a really really really really really really relallyreally " _
  & "really really really really long sentence."
doc.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields

As you can see, a Drop Down will take quite a lot of characters in VBA.

HTH,

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(Edited by gwhitfield on 28-Sep-02 07:02. Hyperlinks added)

I would use a userform – see here for more info:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm%5B/url%5D

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