Option Buttons - Word 2003

[singeredel]

I have a form with groups of option buttons for selection. Is there a way to
make the value of the option button "true" as the user tabs up or down
through the selections, i.e., the option is selected at the location the user
has tabbed to and moves with the tab action? I am trying to come up with a
way to select the option without using a mouse on the form. Right now I have
accelerator keys assigned but these become problematic with the quantity of
selections on the form. I couldn't seem to locate anything in the properties
window of the form that sounded like it would fit the bill.

Thanks!

 

[Anne Troy]

By default, I believe the spacebar selects an option button in Word and
virtually every other program I can think of.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[singeredel]

When the form is displayed on the screen, the space bar puts the "dot" in the
option once I have the caption selected for the option, but my problem is
moving from caption to caption. If I set "TabStop" as true I can tab through
the options but they are not selected with the tab movement. If I try to use
the down cursor key to move through the options, it skips over certain
options even though I have the TabIndex and the Tab Order properties set in
the correct order. However, neither the tab key or the down cursor key
actually makes the option true. Does this mean it would take a two-step
process to make the option true -- tab to the option and then press the space
bar?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?c2luZ2VyZWRlbA==?=,

Does this mean it would take a two-step
process to make the option true -- tab to the option and then press the space
bar?

Yes, always. How else could the user possibly tab through all the controls? If
the one he immediately entered is the one that gets activated, then the last one
would ALWAYS be the one activated.

Conceivably, you could trap the GetFocus or OnEnter (or similar) event and have
a macro change the control state. But if I were a user and expected to be able
to use the keyboard, exclusively, this would drive me nuts.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[singeredel]

Ok thanks. I know it is hard to conceptualize because I cannot put a copy of
the form here, but I was only talking about tabbing through certain
selections in a frame until you get to the desired selection, not tabbing
through every single option on the form. Sometimes that is easier than
picking up the mouse and clicking on an item part way down the list.