
Similarly, you may press the size tab for changing height, width, and scale of a checkbox. The “Format Control” dialog should appear that enables you customizing the fill color, Line style (color, Style, Dashed, Arrows under the “Colors and Lines” tabs). To access that, select the checkbox by right-clicking on it and press “Format Control”: You may change the look of the checkbox by using “Format Control” option. The ticked state means the specific product is in stock. You can see, we displayed checkboxes for showing the status of a product whether it is “In stock” or not. Now, drag the fill handle to the range of cells where you want to copy that checkbox. Move the mouse pointer towards the right bottom of that cell until solid line + sign appears. For that, select the cell that contains a checkbox.

You may also copy the checkbox across a range of cells by simply using the mouse. If you have large Excel sheet with plenty of data and you require using checkboxes then creating a checkbox one by one can be a tedious task. For modifying the caption/visible text of the checkbox, right click in the checkbox and press the Edit Text option as shown below: The default text is not something that you want in your Excel table. The checkbox should be selected.įor moving the checkbox, use the arrow keys on the keyboard OR as Move icon appears while you hover over the checkbox, use the mouse for moving checkbox anywhere. For selecting a checkbox, bring the mouse over the checkbox area (not the cell) and right click there. Instead, you can place it over a cell and linked any cell to its True/False states.Īfter a checkbox is placed in the Excel sheet, you may move it by selecting that checkbox.

The checkbox is a form control that is not embedded in a cell. Under the Developer tab, press Insert and look for checkbox as shown below:Īfter clicking the checkbox under the form control, click in the area of excel sheet (in a cell) where a checkbox should be inserted. If you are using Excel 2007, then go to Microsoft Icon on the top left –> Excel Options –> Popular –> “Show Developers tab in the Ribbon”. There, you may see the “Developer” checkbox – Tick this and press OK. In Excel 2010 and above, go to File –> Options –> Customize Ribbon. If Developer tab is not visible, this is how you may configure it to display. For placing a checkbox in a sheet, go to the “Developer” tab. The checkbox is a form control in Excel that you may place over a cell.

Steps for inserting checkbox into Excel sheet This is followed by a few examples of using it for different Excel tables, so you can see checkboxes in action.
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In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create checkbox (also called tick box) in the Excel sheet.

If that Excel checkbox is un-ticked state, some other value can be displayed in the same associated cell.įor example, display Pass as the checkbox is ticked and Fail as it is unchecked on a student result sheet. If the checkbox is in the True state by ticking, you may display a particular value in an associated cell. Similarly, you may turn a checkbox “On and Off” more accurately True/False. If you On a switch to a machine, it should start working and in the Off state, it should stop.
