Alright, I figured it out. There are two ways of going about this:

1) "If you are using a MacBook, to use a function key, you must press the fn key (the lower left key on the keyboard) at the same time", so it is not just Cmd-F9, but Cmd-fn-F9. Which produces the braces at insertion point, in which I can just type.

2) The Insert > Field... *does* work, but I have to do this several times, in effect, nesting each field... one of which is the REF field, which I do each time for each dropdown.



Thanks!!!

Yes, you can do it via Insert > Field, but that's terribly inefficient compared to simply pressing Cmd-F9 (or Cmd-fn-F9) three times to create them. You also wouldn't want to be using Insert > Field for the complex field coding examples depicted in my Mailmerge Tips & Tricks thread (https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-merge/) or in the Word field math & date tutorials referred to in that link.

Cross-posted at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/m...5-1666df268100
For cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/content.php?184

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