Can't exit design mode in MS Word 2000

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Steve L

I have a form that I created in MS Word 2000 using controls from the
Control Toolbox, mainly text boxes and combo boxes. I populate the
combo boxes using VBA code in the GotFocus event for these controls.
This all works quite nicely. Now the end users want a version of the
form with NO drop downs, just text boxes. So, I delete all the combo
boxes and the associated code and replace them with text boxes. Now,
when I open it MS Word 2000 says "Can't exit design mode. Control
'TextBoxnnnn' can not be created".

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong??
Many Thanks
Steve
 
Hi Steve,

It's possible that this document's structure has been damaged. Try:

- Create a new document
- Copy just the text (no ActiveX controls) to it, WITHOUT the last
paragraph mark (this is important!)
- If you need any of the VBA code, use File/Export in the VBA
Editor to create *.bas files. Then in the new document File/Import to
bring these into the new document
I have a form that I created in MS Word 2000 using controls from the
Control Toolbox, mainly text boxes and combo boxes. I populate the
combo boxes using VBA code in the GotFocus event for these controls.
This all works quite nicely. Now the end users want a version of the
form with NO drop downs, just text boxes. So, I delete all the combo
boxes and the associated code and replace them with text boxes. Now,
when I open it MS Word 2000 says "Can't exit design mode. Control
'TextBoxnnnn' can not be created".
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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