[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Depending on how your form is setup, you could put the checkbox in a
separate section of your document and protect only that section. I would
experiment with the Continuous section break.

Another alternative is to use the Active X Checkbox control. If you
associated any programming logic with your checkbox, then that would require
that your document become a .docm (macro enabled)

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"Linda" wrote in message
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I have created a form in Word 2007 that includes both legacy check boxes and
Text content controls. I want to protect the document from changes to all
but
editing the controls. When I use the Document Protection button, the check
box controls operate, but the Text box controls do not.

Then I read Jay Freedman's response to the Content Control Titles Vanishing
question explaining that content controls cannot be protected in this
manner.
So I removed protection, selected the entire document and added a Rich text
control. Now, the Text box content controls work but the check box controls
do not work.

What is the procedure to use both types of controls and provide protection
to all form content and still allow users to complete the information in
the
controls? I could not find a check box content control, only the Legacy
check
box control. Also, the check box control does not operate until I add
protection and allow editing of controls. Is there a way to test check box
controls before adding protection, or will they only work with protection
on?

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