link between Drop down menu and plain text

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  hello . i want to create a drop down box in ms word which will show result in other feild like in textview etc when selecting the values from drop down  box.

  For example: i have values in drop down box ( Country , States ,City )   i have 3 values in drop down box. 

  now i just put a plain text content control .. now i want when i select Country from dropdown it should show country names in Plain text field, when i select States  , plain text field must show States name

  Please need Help

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  I don't really understand what you mean "like in textview."

  You can use an IF Field  to test the results of a dropdown and give conditional text. You can use mapped content controls to replicate data in a content control elsewhere in the document. Mapped Content Controls
  

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  Charles Kenyon Madison, WI

  Wednesday, December 20, 2017 11:21 PM
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  thanks for reply

  if i use ContentControls ( plain text) will it show result Countries (when i select Country in combobox)

  Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:02 AM
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  See the page on mapped content controls. That is a way to have the same information show up in multiple places in a document. That is, you can have a ComboBox Content Control in one place. A mapped copy of that will reflect the same information in a different place in the document. Changes in either place will be reflected in the other.
  

  The IF field is a way to have the information displayed in one part of a document change depending on what is put in a different part. That is, depending on what is in the Countries Content Control, the displayed information will change.

  Please follow the links I've given you.

  If you only needed plain-text content controls, you would likely be able to use Document Property Content Controls which are already mapped. Repeating Data Using Document Properties Content Controls and Other Mapped Content Controls

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  • Marked as answer by junaid6084 Thursday, December 21, 2017 4:31 PM
  • Edited by Charles Kenyon Saturday, December 23, 2017 3:06 AM

  Thursday, December 21, 2017 1:13 PM
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  Thank you so much

  Thursday, December 21, 2017 4:32 PM