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How to use ActiveX combo box in Word 2007??

Asked by: andreyman3d2k

I need to make a combo box in word 2007. It needs to be the ActiveX combo box, because I plan on making a .doc file out of it.

What do I need to do to get choices to show up?? On a regular combo box I right-click and go to properties to add choices. How do I add choices on the ActiveX one? I've looked everywhere for the answer, but no luck!

Thanks in advance.

Andrey

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Answers

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:36:23ID: 25345406

Once you insert the control, click Design Mode. Then right-click the control and go to Properties.  At the bottom, you have options to add items.




 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:37:27ID: 25345418

I tried that, I get some weird properties menu that looks like access or a VBA properties pane.

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:38:58ID: 25345441

Is this what you see?

 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:45:22ID: 25345495

No, that I would've figured out : )

This is what I see:

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 06:57:50ID: 25345604

It looks like you inserted the combo box from the legacy forms toolbar.... my combobox (see image above) looks nothing like your combobox.  Can you delete it and select the combobox circled in this image?

 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:05:40ID: 25345686

Ok, I found yours.

The problem with that one, is that in order to enable it I need to protect the sheet and allow "fill forms only", but that's no good for me because I need the users to be able to type on the page as well, and of course, in its infinite wisdom Word does not have an option to be able to type on a page and fill in forms (as far as I am aware). This is why I need to use the ActiveX box specifically. (I click on that hammer/wrench button in the controls group, and under activex controls choose combo box.

ActiveX controls work without protection.

 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:07:10ID: 25345701

Moreover, yours get converted to static text when I save as a .doc

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:11:08ID: 25345746

I'm really confused because mine works without protection -- you can type whatever and wherever you want -- and it does not turn into static text when saved as a doc.  Did you re-open the doc and click in it?  It still has all the dropdown options.

 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:18:01ID: 25345816

Oops, you are right about the first part - don't need protection, I didn't exit design mode.

However, when I try to save as 97-2003 document, I get the compatibility checker telling me that "Content controls will be converted to static content". And they indeed to become converted..

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:21:26ID: 25345862

You didn't mention you were saving in compatibility mode.

 

by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:22:47ID: 25345879

I thought .doc IS compatibility mode, if I'm not mistaken..

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:25:48ID: 25345913

Not everyone is as explicit as you and "doc" is often used to refer to basic Word documents, but thanks for the clarification.

You need to put some code in a Document_Open macro or some similar mechanism:

ActiveDocument.ComboBox1.AddItem "Example 1"
ActiveDocument.ComboBox1.AddItem "Example 2"
ActiveDocument.ComboBox1.AddItem "Example 3"
                                              
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by: andreyman3d2kPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:36:26ID: 31629408

Sorry I wasn't clear, I should have just said compatibility mode. (I also apologize if my last post came off as rude, I completely didn't intend it to be... forget that typed things don't always "sound" like spoken things.)

I had a feeling it had to be done through VBA, wasn't sure exactly what.

This worked perfectly. Many thanks!

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2009-09-16 at 07:41:10ID: 25346097

Excellent then! Thanks very much. Glad I was able to help!

Joanne Orzech
MS Word MVP

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