Can you populate a combo box on a word document

[FireViking]

I have placed a combo box on a word document to allow the user to select specific information. however i am unable to populate the combo box. I know that in access you use the "row source" property to populate the combo box. But the property doesnt exist for the box in word2000. I havnt tried it in word97 yet.

Can someone push me in the right direction. You would be doing me a great favour.

thanks

 

[ilses]

Hej Viking,

What sort of combobox did you put in the doc? Is it one from the Forms toolbar? If so, right-click the box, choose Properties - or use the icon with the hand holding a card from the toolbar. Type an item in the Item box and click Add to add it to the list.
A disadvantage of the Forms combobox is that you must protect the document or the section with the box for it to work. For a very clever way to put pop-up lists into a Word document, without having to protect anything at all, go to the Word MVP site:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm

It's amazing what the maestros there can do with Word!

Ilse

 

[FireViking]

Hi and thnx for the reply,
This is where the problem occurs!!
I opened the properties and there is no item box to add info. I have tried in Office2000 and Office97 , no luck.

I will have a look at the site you gave.

thanks again.

 

[ilses]

Oops, looks like you refer to the ComboBox of the Toolbox and not the one used for (Word) Forms with Form Fields. The ComboBox from the Toolbox is quite a different animal. Such a ComboBox is polpulated via VBA code (AddItem method).

Ilse