Have questions or feedback about Office VBA or this documentation? Please see Office VBA support and feedback for guidance about the ways you can receive support and provide feedback. ' text remains Word removes the items in the list. ' a drop-down it is a text content control. The following example inserts a drop-down list content control and then changes it to be a rich-text content control. ' After running the above code, the content control is no longer Sub ChangeTypeOfControl () Dim objCC As ContentControl Dim strDate As Date strDate Date Set objCC (wdContentControlDate) strDate objCC.Type wdContentControlText End Sub. Control's intended use is to format text and doesn't guarantee to preserve the integrity of the input. Control allows copied rich text (i.e from web browser or Word) to be pasted into the control. Control's input and output format is HTML. If you select rich text control you can easily make the changes in style, font, the. The Rich text editor control provides the app user a WYSIWYG editing area for formatting text. ' Notice that the content control is a drop-down list. Let me help you to find out the difference between the control options. ' Switch to view the new content control in the active document. ObjCC.SetPlaceholderText Text:='My Favorite Animal' Set objCC = (Type:=wdContentControlDropdownList) a Rich Text Content Control 3 enter text, graphics, & content controls 4. The following example inserts a drop-down list content control and then changes it to be a rich-text content control. 4 Type Green Cleaning in the Tag text box (Content Control Properties dialog.

The following example inserts a new date content control that contains the current date and then changes it to be a text content control. In this case, Word raises a run-time error. For example, if you have a rich-text content control that contains formatted text, you may not be able to change the control to be a plain-text content control. Depending on the contents of a content control, you may not be able to change the content control type.

Rich text content control