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From: spunkymuffmonkey on 28 Apr 2010 04:50
As always, many thanks for your views and for the link Jay.

The golden moment you speak of is so far in the future that it's more of a
golden haze. Working for a local public authority within the UK who's
bracing for the extreme cuts that inevitably the winning party of the
upciming general election will make, I should be asking if Microsoft still
support Word 97!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> Where I said "document property" and "DocProperty", they should be "document
> variable" and "DocVariable". Greg's article covers that well.
>
> Jay Freedman wrote:
> > At whatever golden moment in the future you can be sure that your
> > user base consists only of Word 2010 or later versions, you can make
> > your forms using only content controls. (Word 2007 has content
> > controls, but not of the checkbox type. While you can use Word 2010
> > to insert checkbox content controls in a document and they'll show up
> > in Word 2007, they'll be inert there.)
> >
> > Until then, probably the best alternative is a userform
> > (http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm) that sets
> > document properties, combined with DocProperty fields in the document
> > body. The userform code stays in the base template for the forms, so
> > that won't impact your management system. With the large number of
> > controls you need, you should probably be looking at using a
> > MultiPage container in your userform to group the checkboxes into
> > smaller batches.
> >
> > spunkymuffmonkey wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I wanted to ask the community if there is a preferred route as
> >> regards checkboxes within Word 2003 documents.
> >>
> >> Having experience of protected form checkboxes I do like them, but
> >> don't like the scale of the restrictions that come with protected
> >> forms (sure they can be worked around but why have to)!
> >>
> >> I do like ActiveX controls but I understand from a previous post that
> >> overuse of them can be the cause of scrolling and/or performance
> >> issues.
> >>
> >> So, I wondered if anybody has a view or even any suggestions
> >> regarding any alternatives that would be useful to me.
> >>
> >> It's worth mentioning that some of the forms I have to produce can
> >> sometimes contain 100 checkboxes and that our preferred method of
> >> creating documentation is using MSWord so that it can be saved into a
> >> CaseWork Document Management System (so no webforms etc can be
> >> used!). Anyway, hope this gets the grey matter working!
> >>
> >> Thanks for looking.
>
>
> .
>
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