Hi,

I have a content control dropdown list with few entries.How to copy/mirror the Display Name of entry (not value) from dropdown list to various other plain text content controls within the document. I mean when I select an entry from Dropdown list CC, want the same entry to be displayed in 2 other plain text CC.

Tried out document property method and OLE link method as described https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages...ting_data.html by Mr. Maxey. But Document property method does not allow CC. And the OLE method requires the links in document to updated every time when there is a selection change in dropdown.

So how to mirror dropdown selection to various plain text controls using vba.


I am using the following code to display the value (but not Display Name) of selected entry in a plain text content control. 

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim i As Long, StrDetails As String
With ContentControl
  If .Title = "Client" Then
  For i = 1 To .DropdownListEntries.Count
    If .DropdownListEntries(i).Text = .Range.Text Then
      StrDetails = Replace(.DropdownListEntries(i).Value, "|", Chr(11))
      Exit For
    End If
  Next
  ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("ClientDetails").Item(1).Range.Text = StrDetails
  End If
End With
End Sub