When using legacy form controls in Microsoft Word, it is easy to set up an edit box, assign a bookmark name to it, click on “Calculate on exit” checkbox in its properties, protect the document (only allow form filling) and then fetch whatever user has entered in it via {REF} field. The whole thing works without VBA and persists when saved in .docx files (macro-free).
And now I am trying to do the same with a legacy checkbox, but the value its bookmark returns is always blank.
See illustration below:
So the question is: how do you read out the value of the legacy checkbox in the field without using VBA? I can’t save macro-enabled file in this particular case and need to stick to macro-free .docx format.
