Create and choose from multiple stamps!

Charles,

It appears that your add-in is inserting the shapes in the main text story. Therefore they will move with text. You might consider anchoring the stamp shapes in the header, positioning them center page and redefining buildingblock.

Take a look at my Add-Ins:

• DateStamp with dialog Add-In
• Paid Date Stamp Add-In

Feel free to modify these to suit your needs.

The first one launches a UserForm (custom dialog) that lets the user choose what goes in the stamp (or type what they want).

There are a total of nine in the list and, again, the user can type unique content because it is a Combobox.

Here is a sample of four of the stamps.

The second one has only a PAID stamp.

Both use the same techniques for inserting the stamps. They are WordArt and stored in AutoText.

These do not use fields for the date, which are not static, but rather use vba to insert the date as text. The one with the drop-down is a bit more sophisticated. With the second one, it is difficult for anyone to change the date. The second one uses the user name to add the name.

The same techniques could be used by you to create multi-line stamps.

I want to create a sort of drop down list of five stamps of our organisation so that I can just select the relevant one instead of typing it in word.

It’s in ms word.

And, the stamps have three fields one below another.

If the content is Word fields, you can create the stamps, perhaps using Shapes or Word Art and save them as or as another Building Block. You can then use a Building Blocks Gallery Content Control to allow choice of your stamps.

That content control can, itself, be saved as AutoText or another Building Block and attached to a Keyboard Shortcut.

The ones I gave previously (in my Add-Ins) were set to use macros because I did not want the date or username to be fields in the stamps. I wonted them to be text.

• AutoText
• Where can Building Blocks be stored?
• Assign Your AutoText Entries (Building Blocks) to a Key or Key Combination
• Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word 2007-2021 (365)

These could also be in a Custom Building Blocks Gallery, a button for which could be put in the QAT.

• Build & Deploy Custom Building Block Galleries by Greg Maxey

Thanks for your reply!

Actually I don’t have one line address but multiple liners. They can’t be added in drop down lists.

Dear respected ਮਨਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਮਰਾਓ ,

Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

As per your description, in Word 365 you may need to create a "drop-down List content control" in a Developer tab.

We appreciate your understanding that sometimes the initial suggestions may not resolve the problem very soon. However, we can work together to narrow down and resolve the situation.

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Waqas Muhammad