I am teacher who was trying to use my x51v for marking assignments. It turns out that a word document I made with buttons and some visual basic coding will not work on my axim. Any ideas on how to make it work or if there is software out there that will let me create quick marking lists.

Try TextMaker it will do check boxes and more. It will cost you. Look for deals on eBay. They also do sails throughout the year. In my opinion it is worth it. Even the desk top version has some advantages over word (not many) but I use TM as my default document type on the PDA because it loads faster. TM on the PC reads the TM documents and will convert them to Word if needed. Also you can save TM to a jump drive or a memory card and it will launch your files fine without having be loaded to the host computer. Macros are more problematic. MortScript, Caligrapher/PenCommander, and NScriptM are all options. They will not import visual basic scripts but they will run custom scripts on your devise.