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Selecting multiple options in a form
Is it possible to have multiple options in a word form and the user would be
able to use a control button to select a variety of the options and then save or print the document with their specific choices displayed? |
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Selecting multiple options in a form
Hi Longhorn,
Save the form as a template. Place dropdown-list form fields (3rd button on the View | Toolbars Forms toolbar) where the user can select what he wants. Add the options to each form field by means of its properties (4th button). Protect the template (last button, or 'Tools | Protect document' to provide a password) and save it. Users can make their own documents based on the template, with his selected options in them. Good luck, Cooz -- PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged in via the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the question?". Thanks. "Longhorn" wrote: Is it possible to have multiple options in a word form and the user would be able to use a control button to select a variety of the options and then save or print the document with their specific choices displayed? |
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Cooz,
Thank you for your reply. I have the dropdown-list form, but it only allows me to select one of the listed items. Is there a way to pick more than one without creating several different dropdown-list forms? For example, In resolving a problem a person could have taken several standardized actions. When they use the template to record their actions they could select all of the actions that were applicable. The final document would then only show the actions they took and not the entire list. "Cooz" wrote: Hi Longhorn, Save the form as a template. Place dropdown-list form fields (3rd button on the View | Toolbars Forms toolbar) where the user can select what he wants. Add the options to each form field by means of its properties (4th button). Protect the template (last button, or 'Tools | Protect document' to provide a password) and save it. Users can make their own documents based on the template, with his selected options in them. Good luck, Cooz -- PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged in via the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the question?". Thanks. "Longhorn" wrote: Is it possible to have multiple options in a word form and the user would be able to use a control button to select a variety of the options and then save or print the document with their specific choices displayed? |
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Selecting multiple options in a form
It is not possible. You could code a form so that at some point a macro
would come into play and delete choices that were not checked. Easiest way to do this would be a table with a checkbox in the first column and the choice in the second. At least one of your choices might be simply a blank text field. A macro would unprotect the form and delete rows in the table that didn't have a checked box in it, then reprotect the form (without resetting data). If you are going to that much trouble, though, you might be better off with a UserForm. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm It could simply insert the selected choices into the Word document. While drop-down menus allowing multiple choices might be possible, to me they would be very clumsy. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Longhorn" wrote in message ... Cooz, Thank you for your reply. I have the dropdown-list form, but it only allows me to select one of the listed items. Is there a way to pick more than one without creating several different dropdown-list forms? For example, In resolving a problem a person could have taken several standardized actions. When they use the template to record their actions they could select all of the actions that were applicable. The final document would then only show the actions they took and not the entire list. "Cooz" wrote: Hi Longhorn, Save the form as a template. Place dropdown-list form fields (3rd button on the View | Toolbars Forms toolbar) where the user can select what he wants. Add the options to each form field by means of its properties (4th button). Protect the template (last button, or 'Tools | Protect document' to provide a password) and save it. Users can make their own documents based on the template, with his selected options in them. Good luck, Cooz -- PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged in via the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the question?". Thanks. "Longhorn" wrote: Is it possible to have multiple options in a word form and the user would be able to use a control button to select a variety of the options and then save or print the document with their specific choices displayed? |
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