||edit: creating in the Office 2003 VB editor

Good evening all,

I'm new to visual basic so I thank anyone for whatever help you have for me. I am creating a form that runs on the opening of a Word template. The form takes the text in the fields and inserts them into their assigned bookmarks.

What I am trying to do is create either a combobox item or split listing with a multiline string of text.

For example,

I would like the combobox to display as an option

Jet1
Jet2
Jet3

And when Jet1 is selected it would insert something similar to the below:

Aircraft Aviation Business Jets Charter, LLC l Charter Services
Chicago Sales Office l 6150 South Laramie Avenue l Chicago, IL 60638 l USA
Tel. +1 773 581 9448 | +1 800 232 5388 l Fax +1 201 624 7338 l www.site.com

I've tried tweaking the below code but I don't know how to break the text into multiple lines.



Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

This post has been edited by mpretico: 16 Jun, 2008 - 05:13 PM

I think combo box is not suited for that and there is actually a control that has functionality like that. I just can't remember the name; something like a word with "tree", agh I just can't seem to remember.

But In my opinion I think there is a control for that and doing that with a combo box is really hard and I'll bet its gonna be messy.

Moved to VB.NET forum.

You need to assign the array to the DataSource property of the ComboBox.

Thanks for the suggestions. The code i posted does work for the state list as it is but I need to do something more advanced than that. I am interested in more suggestions like the tree listing but also keep in mind that I'm doing this in the Office editor so I don't think it has as much functionality.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I decided instead to make the combobox value equal three strings and to have a label's caption change when the item was selected. That is how i got past the multiline text in the combo box. Thanks for all of your help.