Hi JBaker,

Have you considered using Content Controls instead? Keep in mind that it's generally not a good idea to use Content Controls and FormFields in the same document.

If that's not viable, you might consider adding a formula field (not a formfield) immediately after your dropdown, coded along the lines of:
{IF{REF Dropdown1} = "Start of text*" "additional text to display"}
where:
• 'Dropdown1' is the dropdown's internal bookmark name;
• 'Start of text' is as much of the particular dropdown entry's text as is needed to uniquely differentiate it from any other dropodown entry's text; and
• the dropdown's 'calculate on exit' property is checked.
This way, even though the dropdown won't display all the text, the missing portion will appear in the document if that item is selected.

Note: The field brace pairs (ie '{ }') for the above example are created via Ctrl-F9 - you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]