Hi spk,



In your original post, you included a link for working with formfields. Even the 'problematic' line you referred to mentions them. Given that, and your own references to bookmarks, I concluded you were working with formfields. The dropdowns you're having issues with, though, are content controls. Content controls are entirely different from formfields and don't have a bookmark property.

For demonstrations of dropdown formfield and dropdown content control implementation, see the attached.

Note 1: There are two versions for formfields - one requiring macros (the .docm file), the other not requiring them (the .docx file). The content control version also requires a macro. The macros are already present in the files concerned. Press Alt-F11 to see the VBA code. For the formfield versions, unprotect the document then press Alt-F9 to see the field coding.

Note 2: Formfields and content controls should not be used in the same document; they are not designed to work together.

For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: Installing Macros
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: Word:mac - Install a Macro

Attached Files

	Formfields - Dropdown Conditional Format.docm (23.3 KB, 401 views)
	Formfields - Dropdown Conditional Format.docx (27.2 KB, 548 views)
	Content Controls - Dropdown Conditional Format.docm (35.0 KB, 569 views)

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Paul Edstein
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Wow, it works perfectly!
I didn't know about content controls, but at the end I managed to create different ones based on your model.
Thank you so much

Hi Paul, was looking at your "content control conditional formatting" file and it doesn't seem to color the cell after the selection. Also after selecting one of the dropdowns I keep getting an error message in VBA "ambiguous name detected". I'm sure this is some error on my end but do you have any suggestions?

The macro only colours the cell containing the content control - because that's all it was written to do - and is only activated once the content control is exited.
That suggests you have two or more macros with the same name, in which case you're using more than just the conditional format document as provided.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]