DropDown Lists

One of the most powerful document assembly tools within Pathagoras is perhaps its simplest. It is the DropDown List.

A "drop down list" in general is any of those lists that currently sit at the top of your Word editing screen that give you quick access to Word settings. For example, Word presents the various ‘styles’ and ‘fonts’ that are available to provide texture to your documents in drop down lists. Simply point and click to an item and Word does the rest.

Pathagoras’ "DropDown Lists" function in an identical fashion. But they offer so much more power.

•	A Pathagoras Drop Down List is presented in a standard drop down box at the top of your editing screen.

•	Just like with other drop down lists, it is point and click to retrieve the desired information. So you can point and click any file shown within a DropDown List into your document. No navigation whatsoever is required!

•	Its content is a listing of all files in a folder that you select.

•	The folder is a standard Windows folder.

•	The folder can be any folder you choose. And the folder can contain anything.

•	In most cases, the folder will contain Word documents. But you are in no way limited to documents.

•	The folders can be text files, images (.jpg or .gif, .tiff, etc. files), Excel® spreadsheets, PDF files, WordPerfect® documents or . . . , well, you get the picture -- anything.

•	A DropDown List can also reference the contents of a glossary (a single document containing dozens or hundreds of separate terms). The same 'non-restrictions' apply to glossary DropDown Lists as apply to those representing folders.

•	You must see it to believe it, but once you do, you will be hooked.

Creating each DropDown List takes 30 seconds tops. Once created the List remains always active, always visible and always ready. When you exit Word and then return, so do the DropDown Lists.

You can maintain up to 10 DropDown Lists simultaneously. That represents a lot of forms and clauses that can be made instantly available. To our knowledge, no other program offers this.

Create DropDown List from Document Assembly Screen

Create DropDown List from Clause Selection Screen

Create DropDown List 'free hand'

Click on the Prefix/Suffix Naming Convention button at the left (Table of Contents) for more information on creating and using DropDown Lists.