check box with tick instead

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Guest

When creating a form in Word 2004 (for Mac), and using check boxes, the user
will always see a cross when he clicks in the check box. Can this be changed
so that a tick is displayed instead of a cross. It is interesting that on the
forms toolbar, the check box is actually shown with a tick in it.

Cheers

Tom
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

No, the check box form field always uses an X. There are workarounds for
getting a tick/check mark, but they do not use form fields.

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Doug Robbins

Take a look at how it is done in the Fax template that comes with Word.

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Charles Kenyon

It is not possible to change the checkbox formfield to a tick. There are a
number of ways to create and use clickable checkboxes in documents /
templates. Some require protected or locked forms, others do not. Some of
these use symbols which include the tick. Take a look at the Checkbox
template available at
http://www.addbalance.com/word/download.htm#CheckboxAddIn for an exploration
of these.

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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

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