It sounds as if you may be using ActiveX controls (from the Control Toolbox)
instead of check boxes from the Forms toolbar. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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"nchambers" wrote in message
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How can I avoid creating huge documents when I want to use lots of check
boxes. The problem seems to be that each check box has some visual basic
code
attached to it, but I don't really want to run code, I just want to be
able
to tick or untick the boxes.