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    How to add checkboxes in MS Excel? See a complete step-by-step guide

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    MS Excel is vastly used for maintaining and keeping a track of data. Now, if you are planning something and would like to bring a checkbox tab. Here’s how to do it.

    How to add checkboxes in MS Excel? See a complete step-by-step guideANI
    Microsoft Excel is a highly popular software application utilized extensively for maintaining and tracking data. It provides users with a powerful platform to organize, analyze, and manipulate various types of information. If you have a specific project or plan in mind and would like to add a checkbox tab to keep a check on task management, Excel offers a simple and effective way to achieve this - without the need of installing another third-party application.

    Here’s how to add checkboxes in MS Excel

    If you want to insert checkboxes in Excel, you'll need to enable the Developer tab, where you can find the Check Box control. Here's how you can do it:

    1. To display the Developer tab in Excel
    Right-click on the ribbon or go to "File" > "Options" > "Customize Ribbon."
    In the "Customize the Ribbon" section, select "Developer" and click "OK."

    2. Prepare your data
    Create a list of tasks or items you want to associate with checkboxes, such as a grocery checklist.

    3. Insert checkboxes
    Go to the Developer tab, click "Insert" in the Controls group, and choose "Check Box" under Form Controls.
    Click on the cell where you want to add the checkbox.
    Position the checkbox within the cell by dragging it with the four-pointed arrow cursor.
    Remove the default text ("Check Box 1") by right-clicking and selecting "Edit Text" or simply delete it.

    FAQs
    1. When was Microsoft Excel launched?
      It was launched in 1985 as Microsoft’s spreadsheet application.
    2. Who developed Microsoft Excel?
      MS Excel comes in the MS Office package and it was developed by Charles Simonyi.


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