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How to insert a checkbox without adding any Macros?
I want to add a checkbox to a word document that doesn't DO anything except
be checked or unchecked. I do not want the document opening, asking if macros should/shouldn't be enabled. Is this possible? |
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How to insert a checkbox without adding any Macros?
If you insert a checkbox formfield but don't protect the document for forms,
you can double-click the field to open its Properties dialog and change its default value from unchecked to checked and vice versa. Yes, that's clunky, but it's the only method that doesn't involve either macros or forms protection (which has its own huge set of annoyances). -- 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. bassplr19 wrote: I want to add a checkbox to a word document that doesn't DO anything except be checked or unchecked. I do not want the document opening, asking if macros should/shouldn't be enabled. Is this possible? |
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How to insert a checkbox without adding any Macros?
If it's Word 2007, I think you can do this using the obsolescent
"ActiveX" type of checkbox control. a. go into the Developer tab b. In the Controls group, click on the "Legacy Tools" icon and select the checkbox under "ActiveX Controls" c. Set its properties to what you need and set the checkbox state to the starting point you need d. click Design Mode to switch /off/ design mode e. save the file as a .docx. (If you did anything like double-clicked on the control, Word will have inserted a bit of VBA and will tell you that it cannot save VBA in a "macro-free" document. So click the Yes button, because a macro-free document is exactly what you want. f. Close and re-open the document. You shouldn't see any macro warnings, because there are no macros. You should be able to check/uncheck the box, because unlike previous versions of Word, Word does not appear to put you back in "Design mode", which prevents the checkbox from being used. Doesn't work in Word 2003 or earlier because Word switches Design Mode back on when you re-open the document (as per point (f) ) and I think you would need VBA to fix that. Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk On 08/01/2010 18:28, bassplr19 wrote: I want to add a checkbox to a word document that doesn't DO anything except be checked or unchecked. I do not want the document opening, asking if macros should/shouldn't be enabled. Is this possible? |
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How to insert a checkbox without adding any Macros?
Thanks, so the answer is Microsoft won't let me do something simple but have
to make it complex. |
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How to insert a checkbox without adding any Macros?
Thanks, so the answer is Microsoft won't let me do something simple but have
to make it complex. |
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