Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

Text Fields

• Any underline should be made into a text field unless otherwise indicated.
• Occasionally, the book design has not used underlines to indicate a space for answers, but left space blank to be written in instead. These should still be converted to text fields and are noted in the individual title instructions.
• Anything headed by “Notes” with lines that go across the entire page should be captured as one text field with multiple lines, e.g.,

Columns and Tables

• When the form is designed as a column - or table-based worksheet each column or cell should include at least one text field. If the column is divided into sub-categories, each one should have a text field, e.g.,

Drop-down Lists

• Options that are limited, e.g., “Y N” or “(0-10)” should be captured as drop-down lists with those options, e.g., option 1: Y, option 2: N.

Radio Buttons

• Scales: There should be radio buttons inserted before each selectable option, e.g., a numbered scale that asks a reader to rate his feelings from between 1-7, should look like this in the print:

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7

  but like this in online:

  In this example, the radio buttons before 1-7 are all part of the same group; a user can only select one option within a group, i.e., turning to . Note that scales can sometimes contain only two options, e.g. (the design instructions of the individual PDF will determine if radio buttons or list boxes are used)

Check Boxes

• Check boxes, i.e., , should be captured as check boxes that are clickable, i.e., .