Word Form Auto Populate

[petunia15]

thread68-1458055
Hello
I am trying to be able to choose a location and have address information auto-populate, I have been reviewing a previous question that addresses this, however, when using the code format {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Blue" "The boy will wear blue if it is sunny outside." {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Green" "The boy will wear Green if it is Raining Outside" "The boy will stay inside"}}

When I choose my first item, it populates, but my second item won't populate and simply says "if".

Also I will need to populate from at least 3 choices, is there anything different I should do to have have more than 2 choices?
Thank you for your help!

 

[macropod]

Hi petunia,

The field brace pairs (ie '{ }') for your field code examples must be created via Ctrl-F9 (or Insert|Field) - you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from a text description.

For what you're doing, it's probably best to use a series of IF statements, rather than nesting them. For example:
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Blue" "The boy will wear blue if it is sunny outside."}
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Green" "The boy will wear Green if it is Raining Outside"}
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Red" "The boy will wear Red if it is Snowing Outside"}
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Black" "The boy will will stay inside"}


Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[petunia15]

Thank you.
Is there a way to nest the IF statements instead? Or can you tell me how I can do a series in a form and have it appear on the same line? I have tried to do individual form lines and the answer shows up on different lines and I get an error message.

Thanks for your help!

 

[macropod]

Hi petunia,

To get the fields to all output on the same line, simply delete the line breaks between them!

And yes, you can nest the fields - it's basically a case of re-arranging them so that you get:
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Blue" "The boy will wear blue if it is sunny outside." {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Green" "The boy will wear Green if it is Raining Outside" {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Red" "The boy will wear Red if it is Snowing Outside" {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Black" "The boy will will stay inside"}}}}
or
{IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Blue" "The boy will wear blue if it is sunny outside." {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Green" "The boy will wear Green if it is Raining Outside" {IF{REF Dropdown1}= "Red" "The boy will wear Red if it is Snowing Outside" "The boy will will stay inside"}}}
which is pretty much what you already had, though I suspect the fact the 'IF' was appearing was because your second IF field wasn't constructed correctly.


Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[petunia15]

Thanks, I was putting the brackets in the wrong spot before, now it works! Thanks for all of your help!