Drop Down List Content Control Help

I'm using MS Word 2016. So using the drop down list content control you have to set a "Display Name" and a "Value". It was my understanding that if the "Display Name" and "Value" are different then its the "Value" that gets put into the document. When the user picks from the drop down list it shows the "Display Name" to select, then the data that is put in the document is the "Value". What I'm seeing is that only the "Display Name" is put into the document and not the "Value". So the "Value" isnt used for anything aside from VBA. What is the intended functionality? or am I just using this wrong? The only time I see what I think is the intended functionality is when you completely remove any "Value" and leave it blank. The display name is shown when selecting then what goes in the document is blank. But not if any text is in the "Value".

The Display Name is - and has always been - the only content that is automatically displayed. That is by design. The Value can have many purposes, such as containing something to be output to a different content control, as per, for example:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post46903
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post77762
or to be used as a variable for some other purpose.
One might even use it to replace the selected item's display value.
And, yes, all of these require VBA.

Selecting items in a dropodown list doesn't require any VBA. Having those selections affect anything else in the document does, however.

That is correct - as I've already said twice now...