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Old 04-02-2018, 08:35 PM
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I figured I would join this forum to ask if anyone can help me on a project that I working on for my company's sales department.

I am stuck at the final part of the form that will be used for signing on new service agreements.

I created a form for the first page that can be filled in with the new client's information, and their information would automatically be transferred to the next page which is a termination of service letter for their current vendor. The last part I need is to have a set of 4 dependent drop-down boxes.

First box is the manager's name of the current vendor they are cancelling with.

I want this box to be the "master" or "control" box... When any of the 7+/- names that are in the box are selected, the following 3 boxes will be that company's name, then their address, then their phone number. Basically I want the three dependent boxes under the "master" to auto populate the correct information for that company once the one of the dependent boxes are selected.

I am horrible with VBA and I honestly had to go online and copy someone else's code just to get two boxes to work.

I am getting frustrated!

Any advice? Or can any one copy the correct blank VBA code that I can fill in for 4 drop-down boxes?

If anyone needs to see the document, please let me know and I can send it to you.

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It sounds like you only need one drop down box and the other three can then be plain text CCs filled from some information source. The trick is deciding where to store the company name, address and phone number.

Do you have a table that lists the relevant information somewhere:
Manager; Company; Address; Phone

A non-coded method would be to store each of the variable information blocks in a particular building block Gallery and Category and then use a Building Block content control to allow the user to select one to insert all at once. This is actually pretty easy to set up and far easier than trying to solve it with a macro.
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See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post46903 and, for different elements from a selected item to be output to different content controls, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...tml#post120392
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See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post46903 and, for different elements from a selected item to be output to different content controls, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...tml#post120392
Alright,

I followed the first link that you sent me and inserted it into my form.

Now, every time I go to select an item from the drop down menu, it auto populates the 3 lines of text into every other content control box on form?

Any ideas? Can I send you the document and have you take a look at it?

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Can you attach the document to a post with some representative content(delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.
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Can you attach the document to a post with some representative content(delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.
Here it is. Everything is mapped correctly except on the termination letter. I just need to be able to select companies from that drop down and have it populate into the letter head, not the entire document.

Let me know what I am doing wrong.

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As coded, the ContentControlOnExit macro you're using outputs all the secondary data to the second content control in the document. Apparently, you have that content control (which appears on the first page), linked to the corresponding content controls on the second page and, for whatever reason, those content controls don't allow line breaks. In any event, given your document's layout, you probably need to use a ContentControlOnExit implementation along the lines of the second link I gave you.
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As coded, the ContentControlOnExit macro you're using outputs all the secondary data to the second content control in the document. Apparently, you have that content control (which appears on the first page), linked to the corresponding content controls on the second page and, for whatever reason, those content controls don't allow line breaks. In any event, given your document's layout, you probably need to use a ContentControlOnExit implementation along the lines of the second link I gave you.
Is there any way that I could potentially get you to assist me with that?

I am still very new to this and would like to complete my template.
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Try the attached. I had to do a bit of guesswork as to what data goes where, but it should give you something to work from.
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I think the data was supposed to go into the CC immediately below the drop down. In which case, the code should have been
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Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
  Dim i As Long, StrDetails As String, aCC As ContentControl
  With ContentControl
    If .Title = "Current Vendor" 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
      For Each aCC In ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("Current Vendor Info")
        aCC.Range.Text = StrDetails
      Next aCC
    End If
  End With
End Sub
However, I still recommend using a Building Block content control solution which doesn't need any code as shown in the attachment. As a side benefit, using the building blocks allows you to format that vendor and vendor address information.

Once you settle on a method for doing the Vendor info, you will need to address the repeating info so that you don't have to repeat filling out the same info in multiple places such as (Property Name). Greg Maxey has a good tool available to assist with this - see https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages...rol_tools.html
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Try the attached. I had to do a bit of guesswork as to what data goes where, but it should give you something to work from.
I opened the attached, it still presented the same issue.

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I think the data was supposed to go into the CC immediately below the drop down. In which case, the code should have been.......

However, I still recommend using a Building Block content control solution which doesn't need any code as shown in the attachment. As a side benefit, using the building blocks allows you to format that vendor and vendor address information.
Guessed, I did like the way you set it up on the document you attached. How do I go in and edit the quick parts? Like mentioned in the original post, I will need to add about 7+/- vendors to the drop-down list.

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I opened the attached, it still presented the same issue.
As I said previously, that's because you're using linked content controls. In any event, it's only the linked content controls with the same title that are getting the duplicate content, not all content controls. And, given your document's structure, that's what I'd have thought was your intention.
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To create a new quick part, go to the end of the document and create the content you want in it. Then select that content (hint: experiment with including the final paragraph mark or not) and choose Insert > Quick Parts > Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery. You name the entry and set Type = Quick Parts, and Category = Vendor and make sure it is saved into the template that I posted.

Some background reading that will be useful to you is https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages..._autotext.html and https://support.office.com/en-us/art...c-98599f16cadc
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I would like to create 3 tables, each table containing 2 word dropdown lists "Category" and "Subcategory" (see attached dotm file "Category and Subcategory.dotm") imported from an excel (see attached excel file "Sample Question.xlsm"). "Subcategory" dropdown list is dependent on the "Category" dropdown list. For example, if the user selects "A" under "Category", he will only see options "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" under the "Subcategory" dropdown list. If the user selects "B" under "Category", he will only see options "B1", "B2", "B3", "B4" etc.

All the values in the word dropdown list must be imported from the excel and not hardcoded within the word document.

In addition, if the user doesn't require all 3 tables, he can choose to delete 1 or 2 or 3 tables.

Appreciate if someone could assist on the VBA codes for this.

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Dear all,

I would like to create 3 tables, each table containing 2 word dropdown lists "Category" and "Subcategory" (see attached dotm file "Category and Subcategory.dotm") imported from an excel (see attached excel file "Sample Question.xlsm"). "Subcategory" dropdown list is dependent on the "Category" dropdown list. For example, if the user selects "A" under "Category", he will only see options "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4" under the "Subcategory" dropdown list. If the user selects "B" under "Category", he will only see options "B1", "B2", "B3", "B4" etc.

All the values in the word dropdown list must be imported from the excel and not hardcoded within the word document.

In addition, if the user doesn't require all 3 tables, he can choose to delete 1 or 2 or 3 tables.

Appreciate if someone could assist on the VBA codes for this.

Thanks!

Any kind experts can assist me with my query please?

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