How to auto populate a rich text content control box from a selection in a combo control box

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04-24-2025, 04:42 PM

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Windows 10 How to auto populate a rich text content control box from a selection in a combo control box

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Originally Posted by gmaxey

Content Controls are not form fields so they will not work when protected for Filling In Form. You would have to use No Changes (Read Only) and apply editors to the content controls.

Actually, they do work in documents with 'Filling In Forms' protection applied; they just don't work the same way as formfields.

Where they don't work well is in documents that also contain formfields.

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