Response Forms - adding questions

[HonestLee]

I have read all forms related posts and have read David's 101's etc on
creating Web Sites and using forms. I have not found an answer to adding
additional questions and answers on the response forms. When I add new
buttons, they are all associated with eachother, and not grouped correctly.
I have tried grouping them to no success. Can some one please help? Arrange
did not work either. I am a teacher and am trying to create a website for my
students to review at the end of a unit, so it would be easier to have 10
questions on a page, instead of 4.
Thank you

 

[DavidF]

If you are using Pub 2003, then go to Help and type in "forms". Read "Create
a Web form and add form controls", and "Create form controls inline" and
perhaps the other material about forms. If you are using Pub 2007, Help is
simply pitiful and won't give you any answers. In that case, post back I
will copy and paste these from 2003. In fact here is the second which seems
to address your issue:

Create form controls inline:

If you want visitors to your Web site to be able to use the TAB key to move
through and select the form controls on your Web site, you can create the
form controls inline. Form controls are available only if you are working on
a Web publication.

Insert a text box in the location where you want to add form controls.
How?
On the Objects toolbar, click Text box .
In your publication, point to where you want one corner of the text to
appear, and then drag diagonally until you have the text box size you want.
Click in the text box to get a cursor.
On the Objects toolbar, click Form Control , and then click the form control
that you want.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have inserted all of the form controls that
you want.
You can insert form controls horizontally on the same line, or you can press
ENTER after inserting each form control to arrange the form controls
vertically.
Note To test your form controls, click Web Page Preview on the File menu.
You should be able to use the TAB key to move through the form controls in
the order in which they were inserted. Press the arrow keys to move through
groups of option buttons.


I haven't worked with laying out forms very much, but did find it handy to
at least go to View > Special Characters. This helped a bit.

Also if the above Help section does not help, please use a different set of
words or some more specifics to describe what you mean when you say, "When I
add new buttons, they are all associated with eachother, and not grouped
correctly. I have tried grouping them to no success.". It is unclear to me
what your issue is.

DavidF

 

[HonestLee]

Hi David,

Thank you for your help, I realize now that that could be hard to
understand. I did however discover what I needed to do. When you add radio
buttons to the page you are working on, they are all associated together,
unlike in Visual Basic where you group them with a groupbox. In order to
associate specific radio buttons with specific questions and to each other,
you need to double click the radio button and a properties box pops up that
allows you to add and change associations.

Thank you again!
"Honest"lee

 

[DavidF]

Thanks for posting back and taking the time to explain how you solved your
issue.

I think that many times if a poster could describe their issue well, then
they would probably already have found the answer. I can remember many times
over the years when if I had known the "right" words to search for, I would
have found answers in Help in the program, but then if I had known the
"right" words, I would probably already have the answers...kind of a catch
22 situation. MS has not made things any easier as they have cut Help
content to the point that it is almost worthless.

DavidF