Access checkbox in word 2000

[steve]

Hi All

I have several checkboxes on a Word document that I want to access via VB
net

These are checkboxes from the Control Toolbox toolbar
I have tried...

wordapp.ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(Word.WdStoryType.wdMainTextStory).FormFields("CheckBox1").CheckBox.Value
= true

but get error collection member doesn't exist

The checkbox is called Checkbox1 in Word

Any ideas

Regards

Steve

 

[Doug Robbins]

Have you tried without the "StoryRanges(Word.WdStoryType.wdMainTextStory)"

ActiveDocument.FormFields("CheckBox1").CheckBox.Value

should be all you need to get the value of a checkbox in the body of the
document.

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[Tony Jollans]

Checkboxes from the Control Toolbox are not members of the FormFields
collection. Take a look in the Shapes or InlineShapes collection (depending
on format).