I have a long list of choices for a form, so I created a drop-down box. I
inserted it in the form and then locked it. The drop down box works great,
but you can't type in the form. How do I make a drop-down box work in a form
you can type in? Can I lock just the drop-down box? If so, how?

You cannot just lock the drop-down. You can use an AutoTextList field,
though, if it suits your purposes.
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...toTextList.htm

If your choices need to be repeated, you may want to also look at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"dogsgrandma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a long list of choices for a form, so I created a drop-down box. I
> inserted it in the form and then locked it. The drop down box works
> great,
> but you can't type in the form. How do I make a drop-down box work in a
> form
> you can type in? Can I lock just the drop-down box? If so, how?

Charles has offered a suggestion that may work if you have just the one list
in your form. But if you want to make a protected form, then you insert text
form fields where you want people to be able to type freely. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"dogsgrandma" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:08051CBC-1544-4AA4-A078-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a long list of choices for a form, so I created a drop-down box. I
> inserted it in the form and then locked it. The drop down box works
great,
> but you can't type in the form. How do I make a drop-down box work in a
form
> you can type in? Can I lock just the drop-down box? If so, how?