Take a look at the way that it is done with the Fax templates that come with
Word.
Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
The check box form field cannot be modified, but, as Doug suggests, there
are other approaches that can be used in documents that are *not* protected
forms.