Hidden Word Form Field

[John Crews]

Is there a way to insert a form field that is hidden?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

You can select it and from the Format Font dialog, check the Hidden box.
However, what is the point?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix at news.microsoft.com]

John,

You can set the font applied to the formfield to "hidden", which would
effectively hide it under most conditions. However, I'm wondering what your
reasoning is for hiding it in the first place. If you provide a bit more
background, perhaps we can come up with a better solution.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[John Crews]

Ok.

Thanks for the reply.

I need to hold a value based off of a selection from two check boxes. If
checkbox1 is selected then the value is 0; if checkbox2 is selected then the
value is 1. Then on a textbox form field I check the hidden field for
either a 0 or a 1. If the value is a 0 then I average three fields; if the
average is 1 I average five fields. I then display this average.

I hope I have explained this correctly.


"Gordon Bentley-Mix at news.microsoft.com"

 

[macropod]

Hi John,

You really don't need a formfield to hold the results of your checkbox evaluation. At its simplest, you could do whatever test of
your checkbox values you need as part of the vba sub that performs the averaging. You'll need vba anyway, since there's no way to
test a checkbox formfield's state via field coding.