Global replace a check box

Question

I'm converting a bunch of Word 2003 docs to Word 2010. The docs are forms I created with LOTS and LOTS of toggle on/off check boxes. Some are in table columns, so they can be replaced pretty easily with a copy and paste of the Developer checkbox in Word 2010. But I have many others scattered throughout the documents that are not table-formatted. Is there any way to find and globally replace the old checkboxes with the new Developer checkbox option now available in Word 2010? Check box doesn't come up as a special character in the find/replace options.

Answer 1

Frankly if you are creating forms, I would recommend that you continue to use protected forms using the old check box form fields. They work in Word 2010 just as they did in Word 2003 and you can save the document either as docx or for wider compatibility with users who may not have Word 2007/2010 as doc format.

Forms are much easier to handle if you add Greg Maxey's free add-in to put the familiar toolbar on the ribbon -http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

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When I was creating these forms in MS Word 2003, I went online to search for help making checkboxes interactive - that is, toggled as either checked or unchecked by clicking on the box. Someone out there did provide detailed instructions on how to do this in Word 2003 and it worked for me. But now Word '10 has it as an easy option under the Developer tab, and I'm finding I have to delete my old checkboxes (which no longer have that interactive property since I converted the file) and replace with the new one, one box at a time.  I have dozens boxes on my form... Hope this clarifies

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Answer 2

When I was creating these forms in MS Word 2003, I went online to search for help making checkboxes interactive - that is, toggled as either checked or unchecked by clicking on the box. Someone out there did provide detailed instructions on how to do this in Word 2003 and it worked for me.  But now Word '10 has it as an easy option under the Developer tab, and I'm finding I have to delete my old checkboxes (which no longer have that interactive property since I converted the file) and replace with the new one, one box at a time.  I have dozens boxes on my form... Hope this clarifies

Answer 3

Send one of the original forms to me at dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org and I will take a look at it.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP,

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"ClinicalPsych" wrote in message news:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***...

When I was creating these forms in MS Word 2003, I went online to search for help making checkboxes interactive - that is, toggled as either checked or unchecked by clicking on the box. Someone out there did provide detailed instructions on how to do this in Word 2003 and it worked for me. But now Word '10 has it as an easy option under the Developer tab, and I'm finding I have to delete my old checkboxes (which no longer have that interactive property since I converted the file) and replace with the new one, one box at a time.  I have dozens boxes on my form... Hope this clarifies

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Answer 4

By "toggle on/off check boxes" surely just legacy Check Box Form Fields are

meant?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Microsoft MVP (Word)

Words into Type

Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Answer 5

I am not sure what you mean by "toggle on/off check boxes".  Can you provide more details?

-- Hope this helps.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP,

dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

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"ClinicalPsych" wrote in message news:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***...

I'm converting a bunch of Word 2003 docs to Word 2010. The docs are forms I created with LOTS and LOTS of toggle on/off check boxes. Some are in table columns, so they can be replaced pretty easily with a copy and paste of the Developer checkbox in Word 2010. But I have many others scattered throughout the documents that are not table-formatted. Is there any way to find and globally replace the old checkboxes with the new Developer checkbox option now available in Word 2010? Check box doesn't come up as a special character in the find/replace options.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org