RE: What happened to the checkbox that could be inserted into a Wo   

I followed all the instructions offered, and it really did work.  

The tools you need can be found by clicking of the Office logo and going to 
Options on the bottom right.

But you don't have to do any of that.  All you have to do is open your form, 
place the cursor in the box, then double left click.  A box pops up that 
allows you to have the box checked or unchecked.  It's that simple!  Awesome! 
 I discovered this completely by accident!

"Jane from Wisconsin" wrote:

> I agree!  I've looked for the Developer tab, the Controls group, and the 
> Legacy tools dropdown and I don't see any of them.  Do I need to know Visual 
> Basic to get a check into the checkbox.  I am so frustrated...
> 
> "Ojnor" wrote:
> 
> > In previous versions of Word you could insert checkboxes into a document that 
> > could be checked and unchecked (in other words, they were not simply 
> > graphical elements).  I cannot find this feature in Word 2007, nor could I 
> > find anything about it in the next-to-useless help that is now available in 
> > Office 2007.

date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:16:00 -0700   author:   Deni Wooo Hoooo Deni Wooo

Re: What happened to the checkbox that could be inserted into a Wo   

If you're actually *using* a protected form, you should be able to check a 
check box by clicking on it or, if you've tabbed into it, by pressing the 
Spacebar. The Form Field Options dialog (which you get by double-clicking 
would not be available to you if the document were protected, which it needs 
to be before you can use it as a form.

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

"Deni Wooo Hoooo" <Deni Wooo Hoooo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:7D970CA2-189A-487E-AF3A-1054205E7DB3@microsoft.com...
>I followed all the instructions offered, and it really did work.
>
> The tools you need can be found by clicking of the Office logo and going 
> to
> Options on the bottom right.
>
> But you don't have to do any of that.  All you have to do is open your 
> form,
> place the cursor in the box, then double left click.  A box pops up that
> allows you to have the box checked or unchecked.  It's that simple! 
> Awesome!
> I discovered this completely by accident!
>
> "Jane from Wisconsin" wrote:
>
>> I agree!  I've looked for the Developer tab, the Controls group, and the
>> Legacy tools dropdown and I don't see any of them.  Do I need to know 
>> Visual
>> Basic to get a check into the checkbox.  I am so frustrated...
>>
>> "Ojnor" wrote:
>>
>> > In previous versions of Word you could insert checkboxes into a 
>> > document that
>> > could be checked and unchecked (in other words, they were not simply
>> > graphical elements).  I cannot find this feature in Word 2007, nor 
>> > could I
>> > find anything about it in the next-to-useless help that is now 
>> > available in
>> > Office 2007.
>

date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:06:53 -0500   author:   Suzanne S. Barnhill