Drop down fields - Word 2007 (1 Viewer)

davea300

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I have a form than was created in Word 2003, it has various drop down fields. When a user opens the form using Word 2007 the drop down menus disappear. All the user can see is the space for the field itself - they can still type values into each field but the can't see the drop down menu.

When I look at the properties of each drop down field the values for each are still there - just won't display them as a pick list on the form.

I've tried converting the document to .docx (Word 2007) format but still nothing. Doc is opening in compatability mode.

Any ideas?
 

i621148

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Here is the answer:
Go to Developer>Protect Document>Restrict Formatting and Editing
Fill in 2.Editing Restrictions>Filling in forms

This is not a 2003 to 2007 bug. You must enable this in 2003 for drop down lists to work also....

I have a form than was created in Word 2003, it has various drop down fields. When a user opens the form using Word 2007 the drop down menus disappear. All the user can see is the space for the field itself - they can still type values into each field but the can't see the drop down menu.

When I look at the properties of each drop down field the values for each are still there - just won't display them as a pick list on the form.

I've tried converting the document to .docx (Word 2007) format but still nothing. Doc is opening in compatability mode.

Any ideas?
 

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