Mark a checkbox as checked in a word (.docx) form

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I'm using ruby/nokogiri to parse a word form and fill the fields. I've already managed to fill the text fields but I'm having difficulties to check a checkbox. I've looked on the document.xml and didn't notice any different tags when the checkbox is marked or not

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '13 at 10:50

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I've found the solution when a checkbox is checked, there is a tag: <checked /> and when it isn't checked it is: <checked val='0' />

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answered Jun 01 '12 at 12:53

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Thanks. This works! I hope that the team that made this up is mostly preoccupied with designing Microsoft Word internals. – Gijs Jun 13 '16 at 13:24

Valentin Despa · Answer 2 · 2013-10-01T12:46:18.820

You need your XML to look like:

<w:ffData>
  <w:checkBox>
    <w:size w:val="20" />
    <w:checked w:val="true" />
  </w:checkBox>
</w:ffData>

Observe that w:checked has the parent w:checkBox. Documentation on CheckBox class

Alternatively you can set the default state.

Unchecked: <w:default w:val="0"/>

Checked: <w:default w:val="1"/>

 <w:ffData>
   <w:checkBox>
     <w:default w:val="1" />
   </w:checkBox>
 </w:ffData>

Mark a checkbox as checked in a word (.docx) form

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