command buttons

[tawraste]

hi everyone,
i'm looking for a little bit of help please, here is what i want to do:
i want a button on a word document that when clicked upon generates a random number between 1 and 6 and displays it. when clicked again, a different number is generated to replace the old one. i'd like the button in the document so that i can take it to different machines. the document in question is an adventure sheet for 'choose your own adventure' style books, and the random number is a dice roll.

i've tried googling and so forth, but unfortunately it appears that i have no knowledge at all in this area and the existing tutorials on command buttons or macros seem difficult to implement. if someone knows how to do this i'd be really grateful for a plain english explanation. i'm fairly quick with concepts and computers, so i'm pretty sure i won;t be asking for a million clarifications !

many thanks,

tawraste

 

[BCXtreme]

Welcome to the Seven Forums!

You're going to need to make a macro using Visual Basic for Applications. Don't worry, it's built into Word (assuming you have Word 2000 or newer). Fortunately, I have some experience with Visual Basic (as do some others around here). If you can tell me how you want the button to display the number (in a message box, somewhere on the page, etc), and what the label on the button should be, I should be able to tell you exactly what you need to do.

Also please let me know which version of Word you are using.