I am working to create a very simple consent form for researchers to fill out. We have two previous content control drop down boxes in this form which work perfectly. I am wanting to add a third one but one of the options to select is a sentence that is too long and when you click the arrow to the drop down box, that option just runs off the page and you cant read it all.

Is there a simple way to fix this?

You can't change the way the dropdown items display. However, if the user selects that item, the document should display it correctly.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Well, that's frustrating. What would be the easiest/best way to proceed then? Is there another way I could make it so that users could easily read both options and pick one and then have the other one go away?

I tried to create a building block with AutoText but that didn't work - the two options are only available to me and everyone who downloads the form has different Autotext options.

Just how much text are you trying to display in your dropdown? A dropdown content control can easily display more than 200 characters! And even that's excessive, IMHO.

In any event, if a user can't see all the text associated with a selection, selecting it will display the lot, after which they can change their selection if they decide it doesn't suit.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]