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Old 02-07-2014, 02:53 PM
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No, you don't have to use a legacy form field dropdown list. All the new content controls have document events that you can use. You should be able adapt the method shown here to like a text field to a dropdown list entry:

http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/...down_list.html
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No, you don't have to use a legacy form field dropdown list. All the new content controls have document events that you can use. You should be able adapt the method shown here to like a text field to a dropdown list entry:

http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/...down_list.html
Thanks gmaxey. I looked through that, but it looks to be a bit more in depth than what I'm looking for. I should have been more specific.

So really what I want is a Dropdrown list of probably 10 choices. Once one of those choices is selected (We'll call it "Name A") I would like "Name A" to appear 4 or 5 more times throughout the document. In doing more research, it looks like using Field Codes may be the way to go using an "IF" statement? Not really sure. I tried that earlier but it never updated when I selected something different from the dropdown list. It remained as the first text option I wrote in the IF statement of the field code. I have worked on this for the last day and it's driving me nuts. I find a lot of forums, websites, etc. that appear like they have the answers I need, but then I never get the right output. Perhaps it's user error?
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