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Autofill/Cross Reference in Word Tables
ld How many entries do you have in the Dropdown list?
By using the ContentControl on Exit Event in the ThisDocument object, what you describe can be done.
At the following page of his website
https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/content_control_tools.html
Greg Maxey, provides an Add-in that simplifies many of the tasks of developing with Content Controls that are detailed on other pages of his website, starting with
https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/content_controls.html
Note: As you have added the Content Controls tag to your question, instead of using the Protection for Filling in Forms, you should use the Group facility in the Controls section of the Developer tab of the ribbon to prevent the text and layout of the document\template from being changed.
- There are 23 entries in the dropdown and specific selections will return one of 5 corresponding names. I've written an IF/OR formula to do the same thing, but in Excel.
My knowledge of content control is extremely limited, I only just stumbled across the settings we now have in place.- You will need to use the Visual Basic Document_ContentControlOnExit event, most probably with a Select Case construction to return the required one of the 5 names.
