create pull down menu to select multiple options

[Dora]

I need to create a pull down menu with the capability of allowing the user to
selecting one or more of the listed options. Can this be done in Word 2007?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you mean adding a pulldown onto the ribbon, see the following page of
fellow MVP Greg Maxey's website

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm

If you mean within a particular document, go to the Developer tab of the
ribbon and then from the Controls section, insert a ComboBox Content
Control. To add the items to the list, click on the Design Mode button and
then right click on the Content Control and select Properties.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Dora]

Hi Doug,

I'm a rookier here. Yes, I need to create this in a Word document. OK, I
went to Developer, inserted a comboBox. It automatically highlighted the
Design Mode button. I don't know what you mean by Centent Contro. Is that
another function icon I should see. If I double click on the inserted
ComboBox it brings up a code box. Am I in the right place?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Looking at it again, it does not seem to matter if you are in the design
mode or not as in either mode, you can use the Properties button under the
Design Mode button to display the Content Control Properties dialog. You
add the items to the list using the Add button in that dialog.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Dora]

Hi Doug,

There is no Add button in the properties popup. I see 2 tabs; one titled
Alphabetic and the 2nd titled Categorized. In the Alphabetic tab I see a 2
column table with the header (Name) and ComboBox1. Under Name I see about 39
parameters and their values under the ComboBox1 header. The Categorized Tab
has subsections titled Appearance, Behavior, Data, Font and Misc.
So where do I find the Add button??

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You have inserted an ActiveX combo box, rather than a Content Control combo
box.

Here are the steps to follow:

1 Go to the Developer tab of the Ribbon
2. In the Controls section of the Developer Tab, click on the Combo Box
item (it is the fourth one from the left and if you let the mouse hover over
it, the screen tip "Insert a combo box content control" will appear.
3. Click on the Properties icon in the Controls section
4. A Content Contol Properties dialog will appear. The Add button is in
the Drop-Down List Properties section of the dialog.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Dora]

Hi Doug,

I did what you said but it still will not allow me to select more than one
choice. I need to be able to offer my users the ability to choose multiple
choices from the drop down box.
Any other ideas??
Thanks,

Dora