Can't exit design mode in MS Word 2000

[Steve L]

I have a form that I created in MS Word 2000 using controls from the
Control Toolbox, mainly text boxes and combo boxes. I populate the
combo boxes using VBA code in the GotFocus event for these controls.
This all works quite nicely. Now the end users want a version of the
form with NO drop downs, just text boxes. So, I delete all the combo
boxes and the associated code and replace them with text boxes. Now,
when I open it MS Word 2000 says "Can't exit design mode. Control
'TextBoxnnnn' can not be created".

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong??
Many Thanks
Steve

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Steve,

It's possible that this document's structure has been damaged. Try:

- Create a new document
- Copy just the text (no ActiveX controls) to it, WITHOUT the last
paragraph mark (this is important!)
- If you need any of the VBA code, use File/Export in the VBA
Editor to create *.bas files. Then in the new document File/Import to
bring these into the new document

I have a form that I created in MS Word 2000 using controls from the
Control Toolbox, mainly text boxes and combo boxes. I populate the
combo boxes using VBA code in the GotFocus event for these controls.
This all works quite nicely. Now the end users want a version of the
form with NO drop downs, just text boxes. So, I delete all the combo
boxes and the associated code and replace them with text boxes. Now,
when I open it MS Word 2000 says "Can't exit design mode. Control
'TextBoxnnnn' can not be created".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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