WD: Text from Drop-Down Form Field Disappears When Converted
Article ID: 132564
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q132564
SYMPTOMS
When you save a Word document in another file format and the document
contains drop-down form fields, the text of the drop-down form fields is
missing from the document when you reopen it.
Text typed in text form fields is preserved.
WORKAROUND
To maintain the text in the drop-down form fields, save the file as Text
Only With Line Breaks. Note that this method places a hard carriage return
(paragraph mark) at the end of each line.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: field codes dropdown checkbox
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