MS Word 2003/ How to line up check boxes vertically? 1

[srfoot]

I have made a new form for my office. In different areas I have used a square box symbol to be checked off for yes or no as an answer. After each question I have a box with yes next to it and then a box with no after it.
I just can't get the boxes to be exactly even under each other from row to row. They are off by a small amount. When they are in the far left column before the question, they line up. But not when they are anywhere else on the page.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[hext2003]

Have you tried using a tab?

Tab then box then either a space or another tab then Yes or NO

This tab stop will help them line up exactly

 

[fumei]

Some questions.

In different areas I have used a square box symbol to be checked off for yes or no as an answer. After each question I have a box with yes next to it and then a box with no after it.

What are these boxes? Are they formfield checkboxes? Are they drawn boxes? I get that you used a "square box symbol" - although i don't know why you would do that - for something. But it seems there are other "boxes".

Are these in a table? It sounds like they are. Please confirm.

Are you using Styles?

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[srfoot]

I have made an example below. The boxes here align evenly above each other but do not on the form that I made. I tried to attach part of my form here and/or copy paste a jpg of it but it doesn't work. These are boxes to be checked off. I did it this way as I really didn't know another method. My form (page 1) is finished but the boxes would have been better if I could get them aligned.
I got the box from: "Insert->Symbol->Box shape".


? Low Back Pain ? Knee Pain ? Heel Pain
? Childhood Foot Problem ? High Arches ? Flat Feet
? Broken Foot Bone ? Bunions ? Warts
? Corns/callouses ? Ingrown Nails ? Neuroma
? Leg or Foot Ulcers ? Athlete’s Foot ? Rash

SR

 

[srfoot]

Unfortuneately, I just noticed that the boxes show up as ? marks and they didn't align as when I pasted them here.

 

[cmeagan656]

Did you try hext2003's suggestion re the tabs? That should work except that I would definitely use a tab each side of the box to make sure that your text lines up too.

ie:

box|tab|Low Back Pain|tab|box|tab|Knee Pain|tab|box|tab|Heel Pain.

To really get it to line up to your longest entry (in the example above that would be "childhood foot problem") customize your tabs and don't use the defaults.

Cheers.

 

[fumei]

Sigh, since you did not answer, I will ask again.

Are these in a table? Making things line up in a table would be much easier.

Are you using Styles?

As for another method...use formfield checkboxes. Combined with using a table it makes this easy. Plus, if you ever want to extract data (ie. which boxes are checked) it would be a snap. Something like:

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[srfoot]

Sorry fumei, I thought that I answered your question in my last post. I apologize. I always appreciate any help.
I am a novice in making forms.

I did use a text box. I used the symbol selection and a box shape under normal text box.

The boxes in the far left of the box line up but the ones to the right of them do not for me. You have them perfectly lined in your sample. That is where I'm having difficulty.

Steve

 

[cmeagan656]

As Fumei said, if you use a table they will line up easily.

Cheers.

 

[fumei]

and a box shape under normal text box

Huh? A box shape under normal text box. I am totally confused. I do not know what you are explicitly meaning by "text box".

In any case, as you can see I DO have mine lined up. They are formfield checkboxes (unshaded) in a table. And, again, this is IMHO, better as:

1. they DO line up
2. if it is printed the user can check they with a pen - which is what I think you are doing - but they can also now check them electronically (IF you protect the document for forms thus making the formfields active). If theyare done electronically, now you can extract information electronically.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture