Popup in a Form

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I have gotten pretty good at creating foms in Word 2002 using the tools on
the Forms toolbar. I have a somewhat more sophisticated request from a
manager.
Instead of using a Drop-down list in the form to select from a list of name,
such as John, Mary, Tom, is it possible to have a popup appear when tabing
into a field. The pop-up would then present the list of names to the user of
the form, and could be selected with the mouse.

This would be useful for a group of VERY unsophisticated users who do not
always understand that they must click the drop-down arrow to display the
list. It would relieve our help desk of unnecessary calls. Drop-downs (or
hopefully a popup) are necessary due to the fact that these forms ultimately
become printed legal documents, the data must be validated or we could have
long term difficulties.

Thank you for any suggestions.
 
You could create a Userform that gets opened on an "Entry" macro into the
field. You can then set it up that the name selected populates the field.
Of course it requires macros, which tends to scare some folks, but I could
provide an example if you want.

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Thanks for the offer to provide sample code to get the job started, that
would be excellent.
You can either post it here or e-mail me direct at dudl11 at hotmail.com

Dudley
 
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