Word Check Box Keeps Changing Symbols

JLuser619357 · #1 08-09-2023, 07:19 AM

I am having a problem with MS word check box content control. In the settings for the check box, I intend to make the check symbol a solid black square, and unchecked symbol an unfilled square box. See attached picture and document.

It seems however that word keeps deciding on it's own to change the unchecked (or checked) symbol. I can not really understand why, but it is annoying and my document is going to be used by others, so it can not have this issue.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why the check box symbol would change itself, and how I can stop that from happening?

Charles Kenyon · #2 08-09-2023, 09:47 AM

I do not know how it got set that way.

When I look at the properties of the broken one, I see:

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You can use the Change button, but I think the simplest thing to do is to copy the one that works and paste it to substitute it for the non-working one.

JLuser619357 · #3 08-09-2023, 10:25 AM

Yes. I see that as well, and I have tried just using the working one. But it seems that there's some bug where it always ends up changing the checked/unchecked symbol on its own, even though when I defined the symbols in the settings they were defined correctly... I don't really know how to reproduce the issue for this forum post.

kilroyscarnival · #4 08-15-2023, 05:31 AM

Has more than one user (someone other than you) been accessing it already?

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