Checkboxes in Word97

G

Gerry

I know this is probably very easy for you folks, but I
need to know how to put a checkbox at the beginning of
some text.

Thanks
 
G

Gerry

I guess I should be more specific. I don't want the
checkboxes to do anything as this document will simply be
printed off and handed out to a number of participants to
be filled in manually.

Thanks
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you just need an empty box for users to check with a pen/pencil, you can
use one of several available font characters (such as the shadowed boxes in
Wingdings), or (my favorite) you can create a box using the EQ \x (box)
field. You'll find instructions for this in Word's Help under "Field codes:
EQ (Equation) field," but you can get the same effect by applying a border
to Text in the Borders and Shading dialog. What you want to put a border
around is some spaces, but the trick is that you can't use ordinary spaces:
at least one of them (the last) must be a nonbreak space. So type two or
three spaces and a nonbreak space, then apply a box border to it. You may
need to adjust the font size to make the box the size you want, but I find
this works very nicely.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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