Drop down lists and check boxes in a form

I am trying to make forms easier to use for the end user.

I want to have a checkbox be marked with an X when you click on the box.
I want to have a drop down list, drop down when you click on it, and then
when you select one of the options, be viewable in that field.

I know this can be done, I am just not sure of the process.

smurphy wrote:
I am trying to make forms easier to use for the end user.

I want to have a checkbox be marked with an X when you click on the
box. I want to have a drop down list, drop down when you click on it,
and then when you select one of the options, be viewable in that
field.

I know this can be done, I am just not sure of the process.

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I have Word toolbars very customzed and maintain the FORMS toolbar in sight all the time. What kind of form are you trying to create? A simple form is very easy to make. Below is an image of the Forms Toolbar and I have labeled the different icons you will see.

Do you have text that will be associated with your checkbox and dropdown menu? Just click the icon to insert the checkbox. If you are using a text field, you will click the "ab" button. The DropDown form field is the 3rd from the left, and when you click on this one, a shaded field will be placed in your document. Click on the PROPERTIES button (FORMS toolbar) and you will see the 2nd screen capture. I have labeled things there which may help you. Try ig.



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I am trying to make forms easier to use for the end user.

I want to have a checkbox be marked with an X when you click on the box.
I want to have a drop down list, drop down when you click on it, and then
when you select one of the options, be viewable in that field.

I know this can be done, I am just not sure of the process

Please don't post attachments to these NGs. Most of the readers of this NG
especially are posting through Web portals that do not permit either posting
or viewing attachments.

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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.

"Cynthia" wrote in message
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I have Word toolbars very customzed and maintain the FORMS toolbar in sight
all the time. What kind of form are you trying to create? A simple form is
very easy to make. Below is an image of the Forms Toolbar and I have
labeled the different icons you will see.

Do you have text that will be associated with your checkbox and dropdown
menu? Just click the icon to insert the checkbox. If you are using a text
field, you will click the "ab" button. The DropDown form field is the 3rd
from the left, and when you click on this one, a shaded field will be placed
in your document. Click on the PROPERTIES button (FORMS toolbar) and you
will see the 2nd screen capture. I have labeled things there which may
help you. Try ig.



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I am trying to make forms easier to use for the end user.

I want to have a checkbox be marked with an X when you click on the box.
I want to have a drop down list, drop down when you click on it, and then
when you select one of the options, be viewable in that field.

I know this can be done, I am just not sure of the process

Suzanne - these were NOT attachments but embedded images within the message itself. Since I am a visual person, it helps me to associate things with text rather than have descriptive text only. And the message was only 60 kilobytes in size. Images are very optimized for small size. I never send attachments in newsgroups (Microsoft newsgroups, that is). Since I am using Outlook Express, I used the INSERT PICTURE option so the images were part of the message.

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Please don't post attachments to these NGs. Most of the readers of this NG
especially are posting through Web portals that do not permit either posting
or viewing attachments.

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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.

They may be embedded on your end, but if you look at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US,
you'll see that they are not visible to OP, who posted through this forum.
60K is a very large message for a NG, 10-12 or more times the size of a
typical post.

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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.

"Cynthia" wrote in message
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Suzanne - these were NOT attachments but embedded images within the message
itself. Since I am a visual person, it helps me to associate things with
text rather than have descriptive text only. And the message was only 60
kilobytes in size. Images are very optimized for small size. I never send
attachments in newsgroups (Microsoft newsgroups, that is). Since I am using
Outlook Express, I used the INSERT PICTURE option so the images were part of
the message.

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Please don't post attachments to these NGs. Most of the readers of this NG
especially are posting through Web portals that do not permit either posting
or viewing attachments.

--
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.

I will check that one, Suzanne, and thank you for the explanation, but again, I am placing screen captures inside the message body,and not attaching them using that feature of OE6.

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They may be embedded on your end, but if you look at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US,
you'll see that they are not visible to OP, who posted through this forum.
60K is a very large message for a NG, 10-12 or more times the size of a
typical post.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)

Suzanne - my own personal preference is to use OE6 to access NewsGroups because I can view things properly rather than from a web page.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....docmanagement

This is the link to click to get into Microsoft public newsgroup for this particular discussion. You add the account (tools, accounts, NEWS, and add it. (just the msnews.microsoft.com part)

Cynthia

I agree that NNTP is the most efficient way to access Usenet. That is the
method I have always used; because I'm on dial-up, Web forums are much too
slow to be useful to me. I am reading these NGs with OE6, as you could tell
by looking at my message headers, but the huge majority of those posting
questions are not. Usenet is intended to be plain text (with no attachments
except in those NGs designated as "binaries"), and even HTML posts are
discouraged in these (microsoft.public.word) NGs. Although the Microsoft
Communities and similar Web forums are Web forms, their formatting is
essentially limited to plain text. If you want to make your replies useful
to those who have posted the questions, you will keep this in mind.

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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.

"Cynthia" wrote in message
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Suzanne - my own personal preference is to use OE6 to access NewsGroups
because I can view things properly rather than from a web page.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....docmanagement

This is the link to click to get into Microsoft public newsgroup for this
particular discussion. You add the account (tools, accounts, NEWS, and add
it. (just the msnews.microsoft.com part)

Cynthia

They still show up as attachments to anyone reading. Me, for instance--my
newsreader shows the little paperclip that denotes an attachment and lists
the files as attachments, even though they still show up automatically in
the HTML message.

Since plain text cannot embed images, etc, those files have to be attached
to the message. The HTML formatting that you are using just hides the
mechanism behind showing the image. I'm not familiar with OE, but I suspect
the OE feature is just a quick way to hide the mechanics as well, but that
it is still attaching the files behind the scenes. Just like a web
page--the images look like part of the page but are really separate files.


On 6/4/05 7:59 AM, "Cynthia" wrote:

I will check that one, Suzanne, and thank you for the explanation, but again,
I am placing screen captures inside the message body,and not attaching them
using that feature of OE6.

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They may be embedded on your end, but if you look at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...microsoft.publ
ic.word.docmanagement&lang=en&cr=US,
you'll see that they are not visible to OP, who posted through this forum.
60K is a very large message for a NG, 10-12 or more times the size of a
typical post.