checkboxes default fonts, etc

[Guest]

I am learning to work with forms. I am trying to figure out if there is a
way to change/set defaults in checkbox fonts? When I insert a check box, it
comes up 12pt bold-which I do not want.
Also, what is the easiest way to edit text in a checkbox. I have been going
to the drop down list to find edit each time. This is tedious. Can you
select multiple boxes and change at once?
thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?bXJtaXRjaA==?=,

I am learning to work with forms. I am trying to figure out if there is a
way to change/set defaults in checkbox fonts? When I insert a check box, it
comes up 12pt bold-which I do not want.
Also, what is the easiest way to edit text in a checkbox. I have been going
to the drop down list to find edit each time. This is tedious. Can you
select multiple boxes and change at once?

Which toolbar are you using to insert these checkboxes? And which version of
Word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

I am using word 2003
I am using the check box button on the control toolbox.
thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?bXJtaXRjaA==?=,

I am using word 2003
I am using the check box button on the control toolbox.
thanks

These ActiveX controls were designed to work in VBA UserForms, not in documents, so
things aren't as "friendly" as they might be.

Making changes to multiple controls: I'd press Alt+F11 to open the VBA Editor. Go
to the ThisDocument object in your document project, then look at the Properties
window. There's a dropdown at the top of it, and from the dropdown you can select
the control you want to affect. That will be faster than switching back to the
document window to select a control.

The default settings are more problematic. While you can add a control you change
to the Toolbox in the VB Editor in order to re-use it on a UserForm, this option
isn't available for the Controls Toolbox. So you'd have to use a program such as
Visual Basic to design your own ActiveX control.

However, Word picks up the font it displays in the checkbox from the default font
in your document. So you must have set the default to what you're seeing. Try
changing the font of the "Normal" style to what you want to have in the checkbox.
Create another style to use on the other text in the document, if you want it to be
something different.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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