Add Classic FormField Controls to Ribbon

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Add Classic Form Controls to Ribbon Developer Tab
(A Microsoft Word Help & Tip page by Gregory K. Maxey)

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This Microsoft Word Tips & Microsoft Word Help page provides a description of my Classic Form Controls template add-in that restores the classic protected form controls to a custom group visible on the Developer tab.

In the Ribbon UI of Word 2007 & 2010, Microsoft software developers buried a few of the classic protected form controls in the "Legacy Forms" gallery.

For whatever reason they left out the control to lock and unlock the form. Here you will learn how to restore all of the controls from the old "Forms" toolbar directly on the Developer tab.

Version 1.2 co-developed with friend and Word MVP Graham Mayor, enhances the original utility used to speed up creating and editing formfield dropdown list entries. Use the utility as described below:

Insert and then select the dropdown field.
Click on the "Add/Remove/Edit dropdown List Entries" control as shown in the illustration above.
This opens a Userform dialog that you use to add entries by simply typing the entry name and pressing he enter key.

Add, Edit or Remove

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Rearrange

You can also select existing dropdown fields in your document and use the utility to add, edit, remove or rearrange entries.

You can download the template add-in here: ClassicFormControls.

For more on template add-ins and how to load them, see: Organizing Your Macros/Template Add-ins at: Installing Macros

That's all there is to it. I hope you have found this page useful and informative.

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The information, illustrations and code contained in my "Microsoft Word Tips" are provided free and without risk or obligation.

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Add Classic Form Controls to Ribbon Developer Tab(A Microsoft Word Help & Tip page by Gregory K. Maxey)

Add Classic Form Controls to Ribbon Developer Tab
(A Microsoft Word Help & Tip page by Gregory K. Maxey)