Validating Forms in MS Word

[Guest]

Hi - I am trying to create a form that users can download, work on, save, and
come back to, but also has a certain level of validation to as well.

One of the problems I have not figured out is, how can I do validation to
see if more than one checkbox is checked if for instance the question asks
the user to select one of three options. I would like to have an error pop
up if the user selects more than one checkbox.

Also just want to do minor validation to make sure that certain text form
fields are filled in and not left blank - the contents aren't nessecarily
important to be validated, but not being left blank is something i would like
to check for possibly when the user goes to save the document.

Ideally I would like to insert some kind of validate button of sorts a-la
adobe acrobat to validate for the whole form when the user is done.

Any help that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

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What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

One of the links you'll find is an article on creating mutually exclusive
checkboxes.

Hope this helps,
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

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




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[Jay Freedman]

Read these articles:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ValidateFFields.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm

If you have questions about the macros in those articles, it would be best
to post them in one of the microsoft.word.vba newsgroups instead of this
one.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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