Word 2011 – Form Text Box very hard to edit

I’m trying to create a form using Microsoft Word that allows the user to check boxes with a click and also allows easy-to-edit text spaces.

Using the Forms toolbar in Ribbon to insert check boxes, the only way check boxes become clickable is if I lock the form. If I lock the form, the user cannot access the blank spaces elsewhere on the form (where text responses should go).

If I use the Forms toolbar to insert text fields as well as check boxes, then it is a pain in the neck to edit the text. The entire text field becomes active/highlighted so that the a paragraph cannot easily be moved, a single word cannot easily be changed, etc.

Does anyone know how to get clickable check boxes and easy-to-edit text?

Thank you.

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Does anyone know how to get clickable check boxes and easy-to-edit text?

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I'm not sure you can do that with Word. (I've never tried it.) A form like you're proposing is usually created with other software such as Adobe Acrobat and exported as user editable PDF. I believe most on line forms are also created that way.

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