Creating Check Box

[Bonnie]

I seem to recall being able to create a box that when
double clicked would put a check (or X)through the box,
and when double clicked again would un-check the box.

I have MS Office 2000 and can't seem to find that feature.

My boxes are not in a "Form" they are in a table and are
being used for answer selection (i.e. yes or no).

How can I create those boxes with the option to check or
un-check?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Bonnie

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The check boxes you are remembering are the kind used in the fax cover sheet
templates that ship with Word. These consist of three components:

1. A MacroButton field that runs one of two macros depending on state.

2. A CheckIt macro and an UncheckIt macro.

3. Checked Box and Unchecked Box AutoText entries (these are just Wingdings
characters that have been saved as AutoText).

When the check box is empty (Unchecked Box is displayed), double-clicking on
the MacroButton runs the CheckIt macro, which substitutes the Checked Box,
and vice versa.

In order to use this type of box in your document, you need to Copy/Paste
the MacroButton field into your document/template, then use Organizer to
copy the macros and AutoText entries to your template (it has to be a
template because documents can't store AutoText entries, but you could copy
them to Normal.dot if you're just creating a document rather than a
template).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

 

[Bonnie]

I'm not quite following you.

-----Original Message-----
The check boxes you are remembering are the kind used in the fax cover sheet
templates that ship with Word. These consist of three components:

1. A MacroButton field that runs one of two macros depending on state.

2. A CheckIt macro and an UncheckIt macro.

3. Checked Box and Unchecked Box AutoText entries (these are just Wingdings
characters that have been saved as AutoText).

When the check box is empty (Unchecked Box is displayed), double-clicking on
the MacroButton runs the CheckIt macro, which substitutes the Checked Box,
and vice versa.

In order to use this type of box in your document, you need to Copy/Paste
the MacroButton field into your document/template, then use Organizer to
copy the macros and AutoText entries to your template (it has to be a
template because documents can't store AutoText entries, but you could copy
them to Normal.dot if you're just creating a document rather than a
template).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word



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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What part are you not following? Did you look at one of the fax cover sheet
templates?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word