Greg
Tue Nov 28 19:02:39 CST 2006
JGM,
Bravo. While I just tried to answer a question, you impart knowledge.
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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.
Jean-Guy Marcil wrote:
> Jeffery B Paarsa was telling us:
> Jeffery B Paarsa nous racontait que :
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On a Word Template I have created 3 Checkbox "Not Check box Form
>> Fields" and all these three Checkbox have an identical Groupname of
>> Gr. Problem is when I try to create a document out of this template
>
> You mean form the Control Toolbox?
> I will assume that the answer is Yes.
>
>> I can check mark all 3 check box at the same time... Isn't this
>> supposed to be exculisve of each other. I mean I should only be able
>> to check mark one of them and by check marking one the other two
>> should be unchecked... What am I doing wrong?
>
> Check boxes were not designed for this purpose. You can, with some
> complicated code, make them behave that way. But as a user I would be
> puzzled by Check boxes that did not allow me to make multiple
> selection when they are supposed to.
>
> What you want to use are radio buttons.
>
> Personally, I believe that forcing check boxes to behaves as radio
> buttons is bad design that only confuses users, especially
> experienced ones.
> For an example of the difference between their actual usage, see the
> radio button in Word Print dialog (where you determine what to print,
> you can only print one thing, either the whole document, the current
> page or some specific pages), and then see the check boxes in the
> Print Options, here you can select many options.
>
> For more on good and bad application design, see
>
http://www.frankmahler.de/mshame/#up