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If Application.Version < '14.0' Then Main.SetDeveloperTabActive For example Abbreviatatin, Capital, Land Area etc. You could define lots of data about each state in the value field in the form of a string and delimiter. GetData.pAbr = oCCPassed.DropdownListEntries(i).Value If = oCCPassed.DropdownListEntries(i).Text Then Private Function GetData(ByRef oCCPassed) As ListDataįor i = 1 To With ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle(“AB”).Item(1)

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal CC As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)

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In your “State” dropdown assign the full state names as “Display Names” and the state abbreviations as the “Values” e.g.,

You can assign both a text display and a value to each Content Control drop-down list entry. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to use the comments below.

It repeats the text as described and is good to go.īy using this technique, you can create very robust form-driven documents.

Reopen the document in Microsoft Word and enter your information into the first linked field.

To do so, select the tag node in the bind view and drag it to the associated Content Control on the left. You now need to associate these XML fields with the form fields.

After adding the desired tags, switch to the Bind View.

There is no set limit to the number of tags you can add.

“Default Value Text Goes Here” ¢ entering the default text inside the tag will set the default value if desired.

“” will simply add the tag and not add any default value in the XML.

You can add as many of these as you would like as well as add sample text if you wish. Using basic XML, we will create the XML tag “” where the Company name will be stored.

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Download and install the Word Content Control Toolkit from CodePlex.

The following steps are a quick tutorial on using this tool and creating a simple form that ties multiple fields together with the same value: To customize and word with the XML associated with these controls, there is a free application called the Word Content Control Toolkit. And even better, that XML structure is fully customizable in a rather easy manner. However, since the Word 2007+ (.docx) format is now XML-based, the new Content Control features can be used to reference information in the XML structure. In Word 20, it is no longer possible to simply bookmark the form control and cross-reference it later in the document.

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The legacy reference technique also only allows the user to fill in the information in one field they cannot enter it into just any of the occurrences throughout the document and have it update the rest. However, it uses the “legacy” form controls and does not allow you to take advantage of the new controls, such as the date chooser. Then wherever the field would need to be repeated they could hit CTRL-F9 and then enter “” to reference the field. In that scenario, the designer of the form would add the field once and mark it to be bookmarked in the field properties. In Word 2003 and prior this could be done by inserting a form field and then referencing it as a book mark.

This helps greatly to ensure fewer errors and improves efficiency when users fill out the form. For instance, with a company name, you may want this information repeated automatically throughout the document rather than manually entering the company name into every place it is needed. When creating Microsoft Word-based forms there may be a need to have a form field repeated throughout the whole document.

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