Word 2000 - Active X "Option Button"

[Guest]

I'm attempting to create a form in a manner that the owner has requested --
he prefers the "option button" rather than the "checkbox" for this particular
form.

I know that the option button is for choosing betwen individual, mutually
exclusive (i.e. pick one and only one option) choices. I've separated the
various groups of choices into three tables, but whenever I attempt to select
a choice in the second group, "Word has encountered an unexpected error and
has to close".

Is it possible to have more than one option button (but in separate tables)
in a Word 2000 document? Or am I going to be stuck using the less desirable
"checkbox"? I'd be more than happy to email a copy of the template I'm
working on; I've attempted to open on more than one PC in our office and its
not just my computer that's encountering this message.

 

[Guest]

ControlLadyCV:

I was able to:

1. Create three tables, each with three rows and two columns.

2. Put an option button in the first column of each row of each table.

3. Assign one of three groups to each option button.

4. Select any of the buttons with no ill effects.

In other words, it seems like it ought to be entirely possible. Perhaps some
other element of your document, or some nuance of the creation sequence, is
causing the error.

Can you create test tables as I did? Can you recreate the template starting
with the tables and determine if the error arises after a given point?

Bear

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bear, that gave me a start anyways. I was able to at least remedy the
unexpected error problem. I still cannot select one button per table though.
Groups (as you mention in item 3 below)? How does one go about that?

I should be a little clearer:
3 Separate tables. 2 columns x 5 rows; 2 x 3; 2 x 3. There are ten buttons
in the first table, 6 each in the second and third. I need to have three
showing as selected - one per table.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Bear - with a little further putzing, I was able to understand item
no. 3. It works. That's what I was missing.

 

[Guest]

ControlLadyCV:

You figured it out yourself. Best outcome of all. Glad my hints kept you
rolling on.

Bear