Is there a user friendly way to offer 25-150 choices on screen?

[Larry Root]

I work on documents that are typically 35-45 pages and refer to 25-150
citations, which differ for each document. I need to offer the user the
ability to insert a choice from among those 25-150 references, which normally
do not break into subsets. I have been printing off an index by reference
number, but it tends to get lost. I've tried just using the Reference
dialog, but that takes a lot of scrolling. I've considered a multi-page
dialog, but, while its better than a scroll, it's still not as convenient as
I'd like.

Is there a presentation format by which a macro could allow the user to make
such a choice quickly?

Is there a natural break point for the number of references below which a
different approach would be better?

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.

Larry

 

[Doug Robbins]

Have you considered the use of autotext and an autotextlist.

See the article "How to add pop-up lists to any Word document, so you can
click

your way through " at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm


--
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

 

[Larry Root]

Doug,

Thank you for the suggestion!
No; although I use autotext, I'd not heard of autotextlist
(I've not paid adequate attention as the program matured;
I'm conceptually at pre version 6).

I can have a macro could add new autotext entries as new citations come up.
The autotextlist could offer a list of available citations, and insert text.
YES -- that should work!

Two follow ups:

Can I force the autotextlist to display in newspaper column format to fit
more on the screen (to avoid any scrolling)?

Can an autotext entry contain a Bookmark (I've never needed to do that)?
If so great, if not I can have it input a unique marker text, select that
text,
and insert the appropriate bookmark.

Thanks again -- you've got me past my block!

Very Respectfully,
Larry