Can I add individual help texts to each entry in a form field?

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I'm trying to create individualized help text to apply to each entry
contained in a form field of a Word form document. I can only create help
text that is displayed by all of the entries, in other words, there's no
discrimination between the form field entries for individual, separate help
text information, which is what's needed.
Can this be done?

 

[Cindy M.]

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I'm trying to create individualized help text to apply to each entry
contained in a form field of a Word form document. I can only create help
text that is displayed by all of the entries, in other words, there's no
discrimination between the form field entries for individual, separate help
text information, which is what's needed.
Can this be done?

I'm not sure what you mean by "form field entries". Can you elaborate on what
you mean by that? And which version of Word are we discussing?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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I'm working in MS Word 2003.
Form Field refers to an option available on the Forms toolbar made visible
when you work with creating a form document in Word. There are several
different kinds of form fields you can use to program your form document
with. There's the drop-down menu field which offers multiple choices; the
text form field, and the check-box form field.

Whereas it is possible to program additional information as 'help-text' to
appear in support of a form-field when you create one, I've been looking for
a way to be able to program additional information for each separate entry
that would be contained in a drop-down form field. There doesn't seem to be a
way to accomplish that...

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Boomer,

Thanks for the clarification. No, there's no built-in way to do what you're
thinking of. As a matter of fact, I can't recall ever seeing anything quite like
that in standard forms interfaces...

One possibility would be to list the information in the F1 help for the entire
dropdown. Another would be to provide a keyboard shortcut that would open a
UserForm with the information. This could either be the entire list or the macro
that does the work could check the selection in the field and display the
information. Or you could have a macro that puts the information for the
selection into the status bar.

If you're interested in pursuing a macro type of approach, you should follow-up
in the word.vba.general newsgroup where you'll find quite a few macro-oriented
people

I'm working in MS Word 2003.
Form Field refers to an option available on the Forms toolbar made visible
when you work with creating a form document in Word. There are several
different kinds of form fields you can use to program your form document
with. There's the drop-down menu field which offers multiple choices; the
text form field, and the check-box form field.

Whereas it is possible to program additional information as 'help-text' to
appear in support of a form-field when you create one, I've been looking for
a way to be able to program additional information for each separate entry
that would be contained in a drop-down form field. There doesn't seem to be a
way to accomplish that...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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