What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.

See especially
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...FmFldChbxs.htm.

Hope this helps,
--

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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"cynjor312" wrote in message
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Bryan L:
I know you were expecting an answer but your post caught my eye regarding
checkboxes. I am working on our application, placed form fields where info
is
needed to be filled in and noticed my checkboxes can both be checked at
the
same time. i don't want this. how did you get it to where you can only
select
one while the others are deselected? NOTE: I am working with Word 2000

"Bryan L" wrote:

Our 3rd-party management system stores Word templates within its
database.
We use their proprietary interface for selecting Form Letters to merge
(or
edit), but the merged document or template itself opens up in Word. I
mention this at the outset in case it affects any answers.

We frequently merge customer data into these form letters, and that works
fine. I'm trying something new, however. I'd like to incorporate simple
checkboxes into some of the Form Letters used internally by employees to
submit, for example, a check request. Some of the relevant data pulls
from
the customer's account, but there are quite a few other mulitple-choice
questions the user has to answer, and checkboxes would be ideal for that.

I found a fairly simple macro that works in conjuction with bookmarks to
make checkboxes behave the way I want. It uses bookmarks to define a
group
of checkboxes so that only one checkbox within the group can be checked.
Marking a checkbox within the group causes all other checkboxes in the
group
to deselect, so only one box at a time can be selected. This macro works
fine, but I have two problems:

1. When I save the template and then merge a document into it, the
merged document does not contain the bookmarks defined in the template.
However, if I open the template directly for editing, the bookmarks are
still there.

2. Locking the form (so the checkboxes will work) also locks the user
out of the other cells in the table. (For the sake of a clean layout
that's
easy to read and navigate I've laid out the document using tables.) I
think
this means one of two things: I either need to leave sections that must
be
user-editable out of tables, or I need to add form fields to the cells
where
I want them to enter data so when I lock the form, they have access to
the
form fields I've created. Is there another option for me? Can I
selectively UN-protect the specific table cells that I wish users to use
for
data entry? Do I need to similarly unprotect cells that contain merge
fields?

Thanks in advance,

Bryan