Check boxes in Word 2000

[John]

I can place the boxes where I need them, but how can I get
the check mark to show up when I click the box, all I am
getting right now is the selection of the box, plz post
response, I need to get this work done hha.

 

[Greg Maxey]

John,

Several of the fax templates that ship with word have a checked box feature.


Open a blank word document.

Open the organizer. (Format>Style>Organizer)

You will see two windows side by side. One is normal.dot, the other is the
blank document. Click the button "close file" under the blank document.

Click the Open file button.

You want to browse and find the Contemporary Fax Template. When you have
this file open, click the AutoText tab and copy the checked box and
unchecked box to the normal template.

Next click the Macro Project Items and copy the Contemporay Fax project into
your normal.dot template

Close the organizer.

Now you have two Autotext entries in your normal.dot file for entering a
checked and an unchecked box and the macors for toggling the boxes. Use
Insert>Autotext and insert a checked box and an unchecked box.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the check boxes were inserted from the Forms toolbar, they do not become
functional until you protect the document for forms. If you don't have any
other form fields, this is doubtless not what you want. In that case, Greg's
suggestion of using the MacroButton check boxes is a good one. He has told
you how to copy the AutoText and macros to Normal.dot (or your form
template). What he left out was that you have to insert MacroButton fields
to use the macros. The required syntax for those fields is:

{ MACROBUTTON CheckIt ? }

where ? is the UncheckedBox AutoText entry. The easiest way to get these in
your template is just to copy/paste the field from one of the fax templates.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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