More than one content controls in a word document

lucky16 · #1 07-05-2014, 09:45 PM

Hello experts,

I have a situation in word document, where two content controls are to be placed, one to right and other to the left of a document.

I recently learned, inserting one content control in a document, but this seems to be more difficult. Can you please help me out.

Attached is the word document, in which content controls are placed.

Thank you.

macropod · #2 07-05-2014, 11:22 PM

What particular problem are you having? Inserting one content control adjacent to another is conceptually the same as inserting any other two objects beside each other.

lucky16 · #3 07-06-2014, 10:13 AM

These are content control depended dropdowns. When an item from the content control dropdown is selected, dependent text is inseretd in the next line. Following is the code i am using.

Quote:

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim i As Long, StrDetails As String
With ContentControl
If .Title = "Client" Then
For i = 1 To .DropdownListEntries.Count
If .DropdownListEntries(i).Text = .Range.Text Then
StrDetails = Replace(.DropdownListEntries(i).Value, "|", Chr(11))
Exit For
End If
Next
ActiveDocument.ContentControls(2).Range.Text = StrDetails
End If
End With

With ContentControl
If .Title = "Delivery contacts" Then
For i = 1 To .DropdownListEntries.Count
If .DropdownListEntries(i).Text = .Range.Text Then
StrDetails = Replace(.DropdownListEntries(i).Value, "|", Chr(11))
Exit For
End If
Next
ActiveDocument.ContentControls(3).Range.Text = StrDetails
End If
End With
End Sub

Trying to have these dependent dropdowns side by side.

Thank you.

macropod · #4 07-06-2014, 04:14 PM

Having the content controls side by side has nothing to do with the code (which is merely an adaptation of some I wrote, BTW). It's simply a matter of placement of the objects in the document. For example, if you create a two-column table, you could put one content control in one column and the other content control in the adjacent column. Indeed, you don't even need a table - you could separate them with something as simple as a tab or a space character.

lucky16 · #5 07-09-2014, 08:36 AM

Hi paul,
I was really poor in framing my question, may be due to lack of knowledge.
In one of your examples of contentcontols, where selecting an item from dropdown returns the email id, fax no, etc of selected item. I'm trying to have the same thing, on both sides of the document.

So that when i select my customer name from the dropdown on left, it returns the phone and fax no.
similarly when I select my dealer name from dropdown on right, returns the phone and fax of dealer.

Thank you very much for taking time on this.

macropod · #6 07-09-2014, 04:34 PM

My previous post told you how to do that...

lucky16 · #7 07-10-2014, 08:34 AM

Anyways. THANK YOU very much.

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