how do you increase the number of drop down menu selections

D

dennisc

how to increase the lenght of characters in the drop down selection menu or
have more than 25 choices in the drop down menu, thanks!
 
J

Jay Freedman

dennisc said:
how to increase the lenght of characters in the drop down selection
menu or have more than 25 choices in the drop down menu, thanks!

You can't -- those limits are hard-coded into the Forms package. The
alternatives are to use the ActiveX combobox from the Control Toolbox
toolbar or to create a userform (a custom dialog) containing a combobox or a
listbox.

For the ActiveX control, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnword2k2/html/odc_activeX.asp.

For the userform, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm or
http://www.dragondrop.com/wordcoding/word011a.asp.
 
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