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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:01:23+00:00

I have a MS Word document, it will end up as a protected form

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I have a MS Word document, it will end up as a protected form to be used as a course application. I have a table with 6 columns, and 15 rows (1 heading and 14 courses):

  • In the second last column I have a checkbox in each cell, so the applicant can tick in this column to show which course he would like to come to.
  • The applicants can select up to a max of 3 courses from this column.
  • In the last column is a text field that allows the applicants to tell us their priority preference, 1, 2 or 3.

I found this link – http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=142283 – and subsequently this link – http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ExclusiveFmFldChbxs.htm – which shows you how to do something similar if the checkboxes were in a row or frame… I tried to tweak the coding but can’t seem to get it to work for a column!

And I don’t know how to do the priority preference column either! Can I make it so that the text box is enabled if the corresponding checkbox is selected? If so, how??

I’m very much a macro virgin so any help you can give on this would be much much appreciated – thank you!!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found a more simplestic and non too technical answer haha!

    I created 3 dropdown menus instead, in order of course preference, and asked the users to select the course of their choice from there… so no need to limit number of checkboxes within a table column 🙂

    Thanks for reading

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