Form fields

We received a form that already had check box form fields. However, we could
not check the boxes. After some investigation it appeared that I had to
protect the document first prior to checking the boxes.

Once I protected the document, I was obviously unable to make changes to the
text. This is a Court form so we need to be able to make changes to certain
words in the document (depending on the situation).

Is there a way to check the boxes but still add words to the blanks (which
are not fields) in the document?

Any help would be appreciated.
--
meyersroman

See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Add_Toggle_Objects.htm and
http://www.addbalance.com/word/downl...#CheckboxAddIn for
several different ways to make checkboxes, some of which do not
require protecting the document first.


meyersroman wrote:

We received a form that already had check box form fields. However, we could
not check the boxes. After some investigation it appeared that I had to
protect the document first prior to checking the boxes.

Once I protected the document, I was obviously unable to make changes to the
text. This is a Court form so we need to be able to make changes to certain
words in the document (depending on the situation).

Is there a way to check the boxes but still add words to the blanks (which
are not fields) in the document?

Any help would be appreciated.

The form was (obviously) created by someone who didn't know how to create
Word forms. Since in this case you can't very well return it with rude
remarks and probably don't want to take the time to remake it into something
that actually works, just double-click on each of the check box fields to
open the Form Field Options dialog and change the setting from unchecked to
checked.

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

"meyersroman" wrote in message
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We received a form that already had check box form fields. However, we
could
not check the boxes. After some investigation it appeared that I had to
protect the document first prior to checking the boxes.

Once I protected the document, I was obviously unable to make changes to
the
text. This is a Court form so we need to be able to make changes to
certain
words in the document (depending on the situation).

Is there a way to check the boxes but still add words to the blanks (which
are not fields) in the document?

Any help would be appreciated.
--
meyersroman

Though that assumes that meyersroman wants to do the work that the Court's
form designer should have done.

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

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote in
message ...
See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Add_Toggle_Objects.htm and
http://www.addbalance.com/word/downl...#CheckboxAddIn for several
different ways to make checkboxes, some of which do not require protecting
the document first.


meyersroman wrote:

We received a form that already had check box form fields. However, we
could not check the boxes. After some investigation it appeared that I
had to protect the document first prior to checking the boxes.

Once I protected the document, I was obviously unable to make changes to
the text. This is a Court form so we need to be able to make changes to
certain words in the document (depending on the situation).

Is there a way to check the boxes but still add words to the blanks
(which are not fields) in the document?

Any help would be appreciated.