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Change appearance of Check Box in Word
Hi all,
I'm using Microsoft 2003 and have a document containing Check Box Form fields. I find that the appearance of the checked box is not drastically different enough from the rest of the form when checked, and many users fail to notice when a box is checked. Is there any way to make a Check Box bold, or darker so that it stands out from the rest? Thanks in advance for the tips, David |
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Change appearance of Check Box in Word
A check box form field acts almost like a character. While the form is
unprotected, you can e.g. select a check box and apply a larger font size or change the font color (you can also apply e.g. bold font, but it will not make the check box look different). In addition, you can make the check box appear with colored fill. If you use the Borders and Shading dialog box to apply shading to the check box, the shading will only be visible if you have _not_ turned on Form Field Shading. Alternatively, you can apply highlight (but you do not have so many colors to select from) €“ the highlight will be visible even if you have turned on Form Field Shading. -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "ComcoDG" wrote: Hi all, I'm using Microsoft 2003 and have a document containing Check Box Form fields. I find that the appearance of the checked box is not drastically different enough from the rest of the form when checked, and many users fail to notice when a box is checked. Is there any way to make a Check Box bold, or darker so that it stands out from the rest? Thanks in advance for the tips, David -- ComcoDG |
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Thanks for the response. I’m really looking more for a way to make a check box more demonstrative, or stand out more. Instead of merely checking a box, I would love to find some way to have the change in appearance of the checked box be much more drastic. This would allow it to stand out from the other unchecked options. When uncheck its default appearance works just fine since it doesn’t stand out.
Lene, it seems like you are saying that the function I’m looking for is not available. I can change the general appearance of the Check box, regardless of whether it has been checked or not. But I cannot have the appearance of a checked box change any more than the natural check. Bummer. Thanks anyhow. [quote=Lene Fredborg;357963]A check box form field acts almost like a character. While the form is unprotected, you can e.g. select a check box and apply a larger font size or change the font color (you can also apply e.g. bold font, but it will not make the check box look different). In addition, you can make the check box appear with colored fill. If you use the Borders and Shading dialog box to apply shading to the check box, the shading will only be visible if you have _not_ turned on Form Field Shading. Alternatively, you can apply highlight (but you do not have so many colors to select from) €“ the highlight will be visible even if you have turned on Form Field Shading. -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "ComcoDG" wrote: [color=blue][i] |
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Change appearance of Check Box in Word
Let's put it this way: A check box form field _by itself_ doesn't have any
function for doing anything other than inserting and removing the X in the box. Anything else you want it to do, such as making it bold or changing its color or highlighting, would have to be done by a macro stored in the document or its template. As an example, the following macro could be assigned as the "on exit" macro of each check box in the form: Sub BoldCheckedBoxes() Dim fld As FormField If ActiveDocument.ProtectionType wdNoProtection Then ActiveDocument.Unprotect End If For Each fld In ActiveDocument.FormFields With fld If .Type = wdFieldFormCheckBox Then If .CheckBox.Value = True Then .Range.Paragraphs(1).Range.Bold = True Else .Range.Paragraphs(1).Range.Bold = False End If End If End With Next ActiveDocument.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, _ NoReset:=True End Sub Every paragraph that contains a checked box is set to bold (this could be modified to make it a different color, or to apply a highlight), and every paragraph that contains an unchecked box is set to "not bold". The drawback of this, or any other method that involves macros, is that Word is extremely suspicious of macros because of security threats. The only way to be sure the macro will run on other users' computers is to digitally sign it with a certificate, and that's quite expensive. Otherwise you have to instruct form users how to enable macros. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. ComcoDG wrote:[color=blue][i] Thanks for the response. I’m really looking more for a way to make a check box more demonstrative, or stand out more. Instead of merely checking a box, I would love to find some way to have the change in appearance of the checked box be much more drastic. This would allow it to stand out from the other unchecked options. When uncheck its default appearance works just fine since it doesn’t stand out. Lene, it seems like you are saying that the function I’m looking for is not available. I can change the general appearance of the Check box, regardless of whether it has been checked or not. But I cannot have the appearance of a checked box change any more than the natural check. Bummer. Thanks anyhow. Lene Fredborg;357963 Wrote: A check box form field acts almost like a character. While the form is unprotected, you can e.g. select a check box and apply a larger font size or change the font color (you can also apply e.g. bold font, but it will not make the check box look different). In addition, you can make the check box appear with colored fill. If you use the Borders and Shading dialog box to apply shading to the check box, the shading will only be visible if you have _not_ turned on Form Field Shading. Alternatively, you can apply highlight (but you do not have so many colors to select from) €“ the highlight will be visible even if you have turned on Form Field Shading. -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "ComcoDG" wrote: |
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