The remaining design possibility works like this: You have a dropdown form
field containing "titles" or short descriptions of the paragraphs. The
paragraphs themselves can be stored as AutoText entries in the template or
as external files. Then you need a macro, set as the Exit Macro for the
dropdown, that "reads" the selected entry in the dropdown; unprotects the
document; inserts the full text of the paragraph; and reprotects the
document. Don't worry about the unprotect part -- the document is
unprotected only for a fraction of a second, and there's no chance of the
user changing anything.
Another problem you hinted at is that the user may need to choose more than
one paragraph. A dropdown form field is a single-selection control. If you
need more than one selection at a time, you need to create a userform
(
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm). You can use a
macrobutton field or the Exit Macro property of another field in the
document to launch the userform. Place a list box on the userform, and
properly set its MultiSelect property. Unfortunately, the macro programming
for multiple selection is rather more complex than that for single
selection.
