I'd go with the content controls. See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post33489


You might even find a lot of the work's been done for you...

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Paul Edstein
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Hi Paul,

thanks a lot for your answer / link.

I stepped through the code and unsterstand that you have to leave the selected control to trigger any further action. But I'm sure: being used to the ActiveX click event for many, many years, 'my guys' won't accept the next button to be selected instead of the one they just clicked. Is there a chance to return to the control control just clicked (simulate the long-known radio button behaviour)? I tried with a bookmark on entry, but that - of course - fails, as each on entry creates a new bookmark. How can I bookmark the last (user) selected content control and then return to it?

Again thanks for your help
NP

You don't have to click on the next check-box at all. All you need do is exit the content control, by clicking anywhere else in the document.
I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, unless the idea is to allow the user to save the document, then come back to it later on. In that case, though, Shift-F5 should take you to do the last edit.

That said, adding a bookmark isn't at all difficult. For example, after:
If ContentControl.Type = wdContentControlCheckBox Then
in the 'ContentControlOnExit' macro, you could insert:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Name:="LastUpdate", Range:=ContentControl.Range.Characters.Last.Next.N ext
Note that the same bookmark name is used in each case. Of course, you'd probably want to add some extra logic to test whether the exit state was different to the entry state. Just adding the above on its own will bookmark any checkbox you exit. Adding the logic would require modifying the ContentControlOnEnter macro to capture the entry state so it can be tested before doing the update.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Good morning,

I hope, this post will help to understand my problem/appraoch.

That's what I did: I downloaded the linked file, did nothing but protect the file (allow form fields only) and clicked some check boxes. The protection makes the selection change from the just selected check box to the next check box.

This automatic 'change selection' behaviour triggers the further actions. Basicly perfect, BUT I'd like to have the just selected check box to be selected (again):
1. user clicks (selects) check box which leads to
2. an automatic selection change (to next check box) as the document is protected
3. then back to previous check box to pretend an ActiveX radio button behavior.

I simply do not know to return to (address) the previous check box.

Hope it's a bit clearer now.

NP