Need more space to enter drop-down items

[Guest]

I'm creating a drop-down menu and I can't fit the full description of the
item because it apparently has too many characters. Is there a way to
increase the amount of characters allowed for a drop-down item?

 

[Jay Freedman]

The dropdown on the Forms toolbar has absolute limits of 50 characters per
entry and 25 entries. There is no way to make it hold more.

The alternative at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306258 needs some
macro programming. If you want to try that,
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm will help.

You might be able to use an AutoTextList field instead, if you can use
shorter "titles" to let you pick from among the longer versions. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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