What is the command to get information out of a Word dropdown?

[mmtraining]

Hello everyone,

I have got a Word 97 file with lots of nice form fields in it. I got help here to read the value of a checkbox, thanx a lot.

Now I need to read the information out of a dropdown field. I don't mean in a userform in VBA (that's easy) but really in a Word file.

Basically, there is a form on paper that the project manager fills out, tailoring activities that then get taken over to another table. I now have to hand on the information from a dropdown field to the table as well (whose brilliant idea was that????)

I can't seem to "get at" the string which is in the dropdown field. Any ideas?

Thanx in advance for any help.

Carol
Berlin, Germany

PS Remind me NEVER to use Word forms again.

 

[mmtraining]

Got it!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for thinking, it helped:

Sub dropdown_auslesen()
    
    Dim oVariable As String
    oVariable = ActiveDocument.FormFields("km1ag").Result
    MsgBox oVariable

End Sub

Carol
Berlin, Germany