**Need Help with Forms in Microsoft Word**

[Matchu Pitchu]

Hello fellow Word Users. I'm a rookie with word and i'm looking for a
little bit of guidance. I've got two questions.

The first is: Is there a way to setup checkboxes that if you click on
one and then decide to change it to the other, the first one unchecks
without having to use Macros?

Second Question: I'm setting up a bunch of forms in a document that i
will then lock and send out to clients, i've noticed that when i lock
it and fill out a form and decide to select a word to change it, it
selects the whole line of text and not just what you were trying to
highlight. Is there a way to setup the form so that people could select
singles words to make changes as opposed to changing everything? Is
that possible.

Thank you very much and I appreciate all of your help!

Matt

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Matchu:

Your answers are "No" and "No"

Cheers

Hello fellow Word Users. I'm a rookie with word and i'm looking for a
little bit of guidance. I've got two questions.

The first is: Is there a way to setup checkboxes that if you click on
one and then decide to change it to the other, the first one unchecks
without having to use Macros?

Second Question: I'm setting up a bunch of forms in a document that i
will then lock and send out to clients, i've noticed that when i lock
it and fill out a form and decide to select a word to change it, it
selects the whole line of text and not just what you were trying to
highlight. Is there a way to setup the form so that people could select
singles words to make changes as opposed to changing everything? Is
that possible.

Thank you very much and I appreciate all of your help!

Matt

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[Jim Gordon]

Hi Matt

Hello fellow Word Users. I'm a rookie with word and i'm looking for a
little bit of guidance. I've got two questions.

The first is: Is there a way to setup checkboxes that if you click on
one and then decide to change it to the other, the first one unchecks
without having to use Macros?

Checkboxes I don't think so. This is normally done using radio-buttons
(the round ones that Word calls "option buttons"). You can put those
into Word documents if you are working on a document that is being made
as a web page (File > Project Gallery > Blank Document > Web Page).
From the Insert menu choose HTML OBJECT then OPTION BUTTON. You'll
need to know how radio buttons work in HTML to use this feature.

Second Question: I'm setting up a bunch of forms in a document that i
will then lock and send out to clients, i've noticed that when i lock
it and fill out a form and decide to select a word to change it, it
selects the whole line of text and not just what you were trying to
highlight. Is there a way to setup the form so that people could select
singles words to make changes as opposed to changing everything? Is
that possible.

Are you referring to selecting text within a text field form control?
The form field shading is a different thing than the selection
highlight. Try going to Word's preferences. On the View menu change the
shading to Never and see if that fixes the problem.

Thank you very much and I appreciate all of your help!

Matt

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP