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Old 11-10-2020, 01:01 PM
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Years ago, I designed a Purchase Order form. It has some drop down controls and text boxes mainly. No big deal. Many times I have enable design mode in the Developer menu and edited the controls. All of a sudden, now I cannot. The design button is grayed out. Anyone know what's up?
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Did this issue appear when you moved to 64bit Word? Are these 'controls' the old legacy ActiveX controls? Are you sure they are compatible with a 64bit version of Word.

If this is the case, refer to Compatibility Between the 32-bit and 64-bit Versions of Office 2010 | Microsoft Docs for some more info.
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Oh that's just effing great.

Well, thanks for the info anyway.
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Now I've got to start from scratch. I can't even delete the old controls. Thankfully, this will be someone else's problem in a few months. I'm done with Microsoft.
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Without seeing the file, we can only guess at what might be causing the issue and it may have nothing to do with ActiveX controls.

You could upload a (sanitised) copy of your PO and we can have a look at it to determine what the issue is and how it should be solved.
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