Using radio button controls in a Word form

[Nellie]

I'm creating forms for users to download from a website. The first form I
developed contained a drop-down list and numerous radio buttons from the
Controls toolbar, and works perfectly for everyone who has downloaded one.
And they open ok for me, i.e. NOT in design view, when they are e-mailed to
me by users.
The second one I'm developing is similar and has no drop-down list and only
3 radio buttons. But after downloading to my PC this second form
frustratingly opens in controls design view so the buttons don't work.
Why is this? How can one form work perfectly and another not?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Active X controls are intended for web pages and can create more problems
than they solve in Word documents. Use form fields instead.

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[Nellie]

Many thanks. I can't see a form field equivalent to an exclusive radio
button. I should say that I am new to this.

 

[Graham Mayor]

There is no direct equivalent, but you can make check boxes behave as such -
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm

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[Nellie]

Thanks again. The article looks very interesting but it is above my head.
I'm new to this. Whilst I've done quite a lot of VBE in Excel I've never
tried it in Word and I'm not sure how to get started. What do I do with the
macro listed in the article? Also, Word Help only covers frames in the
context of web pages. How do I use frames in an "ordinary" document that
will be e-mailed between users?

Thanks for your support.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

A frame is an element akin to a text box but in the text layer of the
document. Unless you add the insert frame command to a toolbar the simplest
approach to creating a frame is to draw a text box then from the text box
properties > text box tab > convert to frame.

If you have Word 2003 or earlier you can insert a frame from the forms
toolbar (as shown on the web page).

With Word 2007 you can access the same toolset by using the add-in from
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic Form Controls.htm

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