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Old 03-19-2017, 06:27 AM
BigGrayGolem BigGrayGolem is offline Drag and drop text elements Windows 10 Drag and drop text elements Office 2016
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Thanks for the reply.

The use case is this. The form is for use by auditors who are working to a select set of requirements, each of which is numbered. There are about 40 of these. In preparation of the audit, the auditor must assign the requirements -- each, one at a time -- to the various departments of their client (the company being audited.) Since every company is different, the departments will change, but the 40 requirements won't. How the requirements are assigned to departments is different for each client.

So Column A would be a list of the company's departments , and the auditor would fill this in and tailor it for each client. Column B would be the pre-set, established list of 40 requirements. I need them to be able to drag each of the 40 requirements -- one by one -- from Column B into the appropriate department in Column A. They continue this until all the requirements are assigned to a department, and Column B is empty.

Using check box selectors won't work because each department would have to have the full list of 40 requirements to choose from, which would make the form huge. Using drop downs doesn't work, because each department will have multiple selections.

Dragging graphics would work, but it's clumsy. Selecting and dragging graphics in Word is never elegant.

The auditors using these forms are typically older folks with little computer savvy. That's why I wanted a drag-and-drop solution.

Could be, as you say, there's no way to do this easily. But currently, the auditors write in the requirements from memory, and often make a lot of mistakes.
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