I am sure that your employer would supply Excel which is the best way to go, but if you must use Word you could always list the employees in a simple plain text file created with Notepad (or with Word provided you remember to save it as plain text). It would be something like this:
"Fred Brown"
"Jane Grey"
"Susan Smith"
"Bill White"
If it is going to be a long list, reverse the names - "Brown, Fred", "Grey, Susan" to make it easier to sort.
You can let your colleagues amend the list.
Then just read the list into your combobox (let's call it cbxEmployees). There are plenty of people on here who can do a better job of this bit than I, but this is how I do it:
Public Sub LoadEmployeesList()
Dim limit As Integer
Dim employee As String
Dim file As Integer
Dim Employees() as string
file = FreeFile
Open PutYourFileNameHere For Input As file
limit = -1
ReDim Employees(20)
Do While Not EOF(file) Input #file, employee
employee= Trim(employee)
If employee<>vbnullstring Then
limit = limit + 1
If limit > UBound(Employees) Then
ReDim Preserve Employees(limit + 20)
End If
Employees(limit) = employee
End If
Loop
Close file
ReDim Preserve Employees(limit)
WordBasic.SORTARRAY Employees() ' Puts them in alphabetical order
cbxEmployees()=Employees()
Exit Sub
But I am no expert!
Geoff