Limiting check box choices to only 1 choice

[diana]

How do I limit a group of check box choices to allow only 1 choice?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm

 

[cook_ml]

Users expect option buttons to be mutually exclusive, but any number of
check boxes to be selectable at the same time. That's the whole point
of them being a different shape. Why go to the trouble of breaking a
standard Windows User Interface design principle and, by doing so,
confusing people?!

Take a look at the following Interface Hall of Shame :

http://www.frankmahler.de/mshame/Controls.htm

Martin

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Why?

Because often what is wanted is an online protected form. The forms toolbar
has checkboxes but not radio buttons. Putting actual radio buttons in an
online form adds a whole additional level of complexity.
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[Jay Freedman]

Martin,

You're correct about the difference, but Microsoft has unfortunately
left designers of protected forms with no choice -- the form field
tools don't include any option buttons. The alternatives -- ActiveX
option button controls from the Control Toolbox, or reworking the form
to employ userforms with option buttons -- also require VBA.

 

[cook_ml]

Charles/Jay,

Thank-you for your reponses.

I wasn't aware of the two different toolbars. I did check the Control
Toolbox before posting and I saw the Option button control, but I
hadn't picked up on the form field toolbar. I am not a serious Word
user, as you probably gathered, but I code in VB for a living and have
a passion for well designed interfaces so it does annoy me that
Microsoft took the decision that they did.

I lurk around the Word groups from time to time and have learnt a lot
(for example, how to use styles); today I have learnt something else,
which I will now follow up in order to find out the differences between
the two toolbars. Thank-you.

Martin