Then press the Delete key on your keyboard. To delete multiple checkboxes, select them all by clicking them all while holding down the Ctrl key. To delete a single checkbox, press the Ctrl key then select the checkbox. From the Format Control window, select Don't move or size with cells from the Properties tab. To fix the position of a checkbox in the sheet from the cells, right-click the checkbox, then click Format Control from the context menu. The box size on the Excel worksheet is pretty much fixed. It is unfortunate and a little odd, frankly, that this cannot be done in Excel - at least, not right now. If you drag on the checkbox object handlebars, you will resize the object frame, but alas! This won’t resize the checkbox itself. How to control checkbox size and position Drag the fill handle at the lower right-hand corner of the cell in the direction you want the new checkboxes to appear.Īlthough the copied boxes appear with the same caption names as the original box, a unique backend name is created for each box. To copy a checkbox into adjacent cells, use the keyboard arrow keys to select the cell containing the checkbox (don’t select the checkbox itself).Then go to the cell where you would like the new checkbox to be and press Ctrl + V (to paste), or Select the checkbox and press Ctrl + C (to copy).This will place the new box at a location close to the previous checkbox, or Select the checkbox and press Ctrl + D (to duplicate and paste).To insert multiple checkboxes in Excel, insert the first checkbox.

How to insert multiple checkboxes in Excel To remove the caption name text (Check Box 1): right click the checkbox, select Edit Text in the context menu, highlight the text, then delete. Your first box will have the default Caption Name “Check Box 1” next to the box as shown on the worksheet below.Įxcel also creates a Backend Name which is shown in the Name Box. Click anywhere in the worksheet, and Excel will insert a checkbox at that location.Under Form Controls, click the checkbox icon (a square with a blue checkmark).

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