Thank you for responding -

I see what you mean about having both the double click and click events
being mutually exclusive.  I don't need both in the labels, just noticed
that it has both capabilities.

What I am trying to do is make a word document with textboxes for
entering physical exam results.  This ideally would contain a normal
exam as the first option, then various subsets of the exam within esch
category, both with normal and abnornal findings.  The way I have set
this up is to embed the phrases in < and > marks ( I call them chevrons,
but it is probably not the right term).  

one line is like this:

Lungs: <clear with good air movement><clear, ><good air movement, >
<decreased breath sounds, ><no wheeze, ><no crackles, ><no rhonchii, >
<no rub, >

The user would click on a place in the textbox and my vba code then
determines if the textbox.selstart is in text which is embedded between
2 chevrons.   The reason I would like a click and double click event (
or something else) is that I would like just one click to clear the
chevrons, which converts the test to "straight" text. All of the
reamining chevron embedded text is delected prior to saving/printing the
forrm , this leaves only what I want to keep.  

The second action would cause a dropdown to open right over the selected
text phrase, containing varaition on the selected phrase - things like
"scattered wheeze, " or "very diminished breath sound on right, "    
which the user could then pick.  

I didn't want a dropdown every time a text is clicked, as most of the
time, the correct embedded text will be ok as it is, and only needs to
be marked to keep when the extra is removed later.

I tried a right click, but it doesn't do anything in a textbox on a word
document as an inlineshape.

I will try to work on a submenu that opens with a rightclick in a
textbox, but If I can't, then maybe I'll use 2 types of embedding, <>'s
and [] marks, converting to the [] after the first click, and opening up
a dropdown if text embedded in [] is then clicked.  Then making [] text
into clear text before the final save/print.  

Again thanks for your help.  
PS - some pointers on how to get a dropdown box to open right below
selected spot in a text box would be most appreciated.

Jim