

Now we will start off with creating some. Click OK to to see Developer tab on the ribbon. To make it apparent, head over to File menu, click Options, from in left pane click Customize Ribbon, and from right pane enable Developer check-box.

This is may be a very cumbersome change for a complex form if done manually, but with the help of some JavaScript, we can make this change automatically with a few lines of JavaScript code. Form controls are bundled under Developer tab, which is by default hidden. If you’ve created a complex form with radio buttons, and your requirements for the form change late in the implementation phase, and all of a sudden you need to make sure that a radio button selection can be deselected, you will have to convert all radio button groups to checkbox groups. Click OK, and then the Develop Tab will appear on the Ribbon. Click Popular, select the box at Show Develop Tab in the Ribbon and check it. Choose the Word Option button, and then the Word Option dialog box pops up. As you can see from the screenshots above, the checkbox still has a square “box”, whereas a real radio button uses a round container, but the checkmark is now a black “dot” or circle, just like for a radio button. Customize Developer tab in Microsoft Word 2007. To make it look more like a radio button, I usually select “Circle” as the check box style. The same tab also allows us to modify the style of the checkbox. This can be done on the “Options” tab of the field properties: There is no automatic way to create these checkbox groups as for radio buttons, we have to manually apply the same name to all checkboxes that we want to be part of the group (on the “General” tab of the field properties), and then provide different export values for the different checkboxes in one group. only one option can be selected), but does allow you to have all options deselected by clicking on the currently selected item. On the Developer tab (see Show the Developer tab), in the Controls group, click the Insert drop-down list and then choose Option Button: Add as many option buttons as the number of series, which will be selected by these option buttons and place them where you want. This can be accomplished with a checkbox group:Ī checkbox group behaves just like a radio button group (e.g. Sometimes it would be useful to allow the user to unselect a radio button. There is one problem with radio buttons: When you have a selection that also includes “non of the above”, you have to create a separate option for that: A radio button group – once selected – cannot be unselected.
#MS WORD DEVELOPER TAB RADIO BUTTON GROUP PDF#
If you’ve worked with PDF forms, you are probably familiar with radio buttons:
