CommandButton and AutoText

[QuannyUK]

Hello,

Would be very grateful if somebody could help me with a piece of work I've got stuck on...

So, I've built a form in Word which has various sections and I'm looking for additional sections to be added when required. To do that, I've inserted a CommandButton into parts of the document and then used AutoText to insert them. This seems to work for any CommandButton that is displayed when the document is created (only two) but any CommandButton that is subsequently displayed, because they are contained within the relevant AutoText, does not work.

Hopefully this makes sense? I can try and explain better and/or provide screenshots and/or code, if necessary.

Can anybody help me get CommandButtons added to a document via AutoText working?

- Adam.

[macropod]

Presumably you're using an ActiveX Command Button. The problem with that approach is that the macro code for such controls are that they're control-specific. Consequently, if you don't know what name Word will assign to your Command Button before it's inserted, you can't code for it. You may get better results by using a Picture content control, formatted to look like a Command Button, since all content controls in a document can be actioned via a single ContentControlOnEnter macro. At most, all you'll need to do is to assign a title or tag to the content control when adding it to your AutoText, so the ContentControlOnEnter macro can test the title or tag before reacting to just any picture content control.

[QuannyUK]

Thank you!