[degas1900]

Thanks. Double-clicking on the box then choosing "checked" as the default in
the pop-up box worked.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Assuming the document was created as a protected form, you should be able to
check the box by clicking with the mouse or tabbing to it and pressing the
spacebar. If the form has not been protected, then the person who created it
didn't know what he was doing. In this case, you can either protect the form
(if it's designed to be used that way) or, if the rest of the document
contains no form fields, you *can* check the box by double-clicking on it
and choosing "Checked" instead of "Not checked" in the Form Field Options
dialog.

If the box is just a Wingdings character, then the expectation was probably
that you would print out the form and fill it in by hand. If you insist on
doing it on the computer, you'll need to substitute another Wingdings
character for a checked box.

It's possible that the person who created the form based it on one of the
fax cover sheets that ship with Word, which include macros and AutoText
entries for checked and unchecked boxes (you can double-click to switch from
one to the other); unfortunately, these don't travel well because, while the
macros can be saved in the document, AutoText entries can be saved only in a
template.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"degas1900" wrote in message
...
Someone has sent me a Word form with boxes in which to check or put an X.
I've tried to follow the instructions at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm, but they don't help in
this
situation when someone else has created the document and all I want to do
is
put an X in a box. Is there a simple way to do this, similar to
WordPerfect's Format|Typesetting|Overstrike? I'm using Word 2003.