Display the Forms toolbar. Click the Form Field Shading button to turn off
the the shading and the Protect Form (padlock) button to lock the form. Then
your checkbox should work as designed.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"*((({" wrote in message
...
What have I got here? Some kind of a form -- it's got
checkboxes. If you click on one, you get a dialog box. They have
gray shading.

I want to keep the checkboxes, and I'd like a user to pick one
and check it. But I don't want the dialog boxes or the gray shading.

I'm dealing with something new -- for me. ;-) Using Word 2000 on
XP Home.

*(((({