Jay
Fri May 19 08:48:07 CDT 2006
Hi EC,
Although Forms controls and Control Toolbox controls (which are ActiveX)
aren't completely incompatible, they frequently don't play nicely together.
More likely, though, is that the Control Toolbox controls are running afoul
of Word's macro security mechanism, which treats them the same as VBA code
in the document. This is described at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnword2k2/html/odc_activeX.asp
in the third bullet below "Appropriateness for the Task". Because you (the
template developer) can't control how the macro security level is set on any
other user's computer, your controls could be disabled without warning
unless the template is digitally signed.
You could use check boxes from the Forms toolbar instead of those from the
Control Toolbox. Unfortunately, there is no option button control on the
Forms toolbar. Although there's a way to make check boxes behave in a
mutually exclusive manner to simulate option buttons, that requires VBA code
(
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm) so it's also
disabled by high security settings.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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EC wrote:
> I am using Word XP to create forms which include Text Form Fields
> (from the form toolbar) plus Option Buttons + Check Boxes (from the
> control toolbox).
>
> The forms are protected and saved as templates. They take a long
> time to open, but function fine on several machines, however the
> control toolbox functions do not work at all on another bunch of
> machines after the forms are saved as Templates (prior to this they
> seem to work okay)
>
> All computers are running the same version of Office XP. The older
> bunch of machines can run the templates and the newer machines do
> not. All machines that have been tested with these forms are on the
> same network.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks