Form checkboxes

[Guest]

I am new to Word forms. I would like to place a series of 5 checkboxes on a
form. I want users to only be able to check one of these boxes. If they try
to check another, the one they checked first should be unchecked. Basically,
the boxes must be linked in some way so that only one can be chosen at any
point in time.

I see you can run a macro on entry into a checkbox and on exit. Do I need
to write a macro to accomplish this, or is there some other way a group of
checkboxes can be linked in this way.

Thanks for any and all ideas on this,
Mark

 

[Graham Mayor]

You'll need the macros! See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm

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[Guest]

Many thanks, Graham.

You'll need the macros! See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm

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[Guest]

Graham,

I need to be able to do same but inside a table. Looking over this macro,
seems like if:
- the checkboxes were in sequence in the table so you can skip thru each one
with a for/next, and
- you know the number of checkboxes to skip thru, OR
- you know the name of the last checkbox field to end with
That you could do this from within a table.

Am not very expert on macros but does this sound right to you and would you
be willing to take a stab at it to help get me started with the code?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[the neighbor]

I had had this problem and switched from checkboxes to a drop down list.
There is an "option button" in the web tools, but unfortunately not in the
forms editor.

 

[the neighbor]

I had had this problem and switched from checkboxes to a drop down list.
There is an "option button" in the web tools, but unfortunately not in the
forms editor.