Content Controls for use on the Mac?

Charles K. Kenyon http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#ContentControlsMac

Part 1 – Document Property Content Controls

Below are Word’s document property content controls. These are found under the Insert Tab > Quick Parts in Word for Windows. They are not found in Word for the Mac as of this writing but will work in Word for the Mac as described in the page Repeating Data Using Document Property Content Controls and Other Mapped Content Controls. I believe that if copied and pasted from this template, they will work in Mac documents. Preferable is to develop templates in the Windows environment because that will let you rename these for use in your document. My understanding is that these work in Word for the Mac Versions 2011 and 2016 and later.

For adding/editing Content Controls directly in the Mac interface, see Content Controls for macOS by John Korchok.

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Part 2 – Content Controls Container

This is about the controls on the Developer Tab that are not available in the Mac versions as of Version 16.18 (this writing).

On the PC they are as shown in the red box below.

These are the:

Rich Text Content Control

Click here to enter text.

Plain Text Content Control

Click here to enter text.

Picture Content Control

Building Block Content Control

(This should not work on a Mac because Mac does not yet use Building Blocks other than AutoText. I have set it for AutoText in the hope that it may work for that.)

Choose a building block.

Checkbox Content Control

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Combo Box Content Control

Choose an item.

Drop-Down List Content Control

Choose an item.

Date Picker Content Control

Click here to enter a date.

AutoText – Version 21.05 and later

I have put the above list in a custom building block gallery. You can try typing the following and pressing F3 to see if they insert: They will in Windows versions beginning with Word 2010.

_DocProp _Doc

There is a companion template available for download that has them in the regular AutoText gallery as individual entries. The link to download that is on my page on Repeating Data Using Document Properties Content Controls and Other Mapped Content Controls toward the bottom of the page in the section on the Macinosh.

Version 24.06 These are now AutoText rather than in the Custom Building Blocks Gallery

The mapped Content Controls are in the AutoText entry _DocProperty

The other Content Controls are in the AutoText entry _ContentControlsWindows

To have access to these in all of your documents, put this template in your Word Startup Folder. These AutoText entries will then be available in all of your documents.

Warranty — As Is

This is distributed without warranty or promises of any kind. I do not know of any harm to come from using this but I have not tested it on a Macintosh system and am relying on information from others that it is helpful.