You can use checkboxes on a worksheet, and link the results to a cell. This makes it easy for someone to give a quick answer to a question, or select an option. You can even add programming to a check box, so something happens automatically when the box is clicked. Here is the list, ready for the check boxes. For a quicker way to add check boxes, you can use the macro from the Excel VBA — Check Boxes page on my Contextures site.

If there are only a few check boxes, you can link them manually, by following these steps:. In an ideal world, you would be able to use a relative reference to a cell as the check box link. Then, if you moved or copied the cell to a different location, it would automatically adjust to refer to the cell that in the same row, 20 columns to the right. The good news is that you can use a macro, if you have lots of check boxes to link.

To add this code to your own workbook, copy it to a regular code module. Hi Debra, Thanks for sharing this.

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I enjoy your posts very much because they are really practical in real workplace. Now I can save plenty of time for creating links to check boxes. Thanks for this tutorial on check boxes. I have a couple of questions. Once I run the macro to link the boxes 1 col to the left, how do I undo that.

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And, how do I link them, instead, to a location on another sheet? Thanks for your help, this will be a real time saver as I have a Book with about check boxes I need to link to another page. This is an extremely large step to getting me where I want to go. I understand enough about code to know what this is saying, however in all reality no zero about coding.

I am trying to do something very similar but with option buttons. What would be a code for group boxes to link row to row down a column as you have them shown here with checkboxes since as you put it the easy way of copy and pasting non absolutes is not an available option. Madison, there is a Survey form on my website that might be closer to what you need.

It sets up rows with option buttons in groups. I have two columns — Email and Phone. I want a cell to automatically insert a tick symbol if a different cell is true Is there a way of doing this. This is great, thank you. Hi, This worked for me. Though I am using it on a large number of cells and need to see which are both TRUE and FALSE. I need any box that is left unticked to read as FALSE without selecting it then unselecting.

Could you tell me what to add to the macro to do this? Emma, you could add a couple of lines to the LinkCheckBoxes macro, so it sets the linked cell to FALSE:. Hey, I want to make an excel for performance review for my company. I want to add checks that go to specific paragraphs with the information. To basically reduce typing and help with grammar for other employees. This was a great help, but I have a worksheet with multiple columns of checkboxes and some of these require specific text….

Your tutorial is what I am looking for the long time. In fact, I am searching it for week. I appreciated your help, indeed. I have 3 columns of checkboxes and I just edit your code to copy the code result to 3 columns to the right instead of 2.

But all the result started at 1 row above the checkboxes. Can you help me that? Thanks so much for this. I am writing a workbook to track student attendance, and this code helps a ton.

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I have a column of 25 check boxes, and I would like to have one separate check box that can control all 25 at once. Is there any way to do this? Anyone can help me on this, need to assign controlled series number for each form and it will automatically assign during printing.

I was really frustrated about linking all check boxes manually. I will share this on Facebook. You can use the following code to automatically link any check box you create to its parent cell. Count Then For Each chk In ActiveSheet.

Hello Debra, thanks for your excel file. I have around multiple choice Questions coming from my old internet site I did a copy Paste from the HTML page to excel. I used modified it for scroll bars and it worked perfectly. I was really worried that I might have to link scroll bars one by one.

This worked well for me, but I have a problem in that if I run a drop down option search such as by alphabet or date the file changes but due to the absolute reference link in the checkboxes the checkboxes remain fixed to different data.

For Each chk In ActiveSheet. That means that there are no checkboxes on the activesheet. So either the sheet that is active is not the sheet you really want — or there are no checkboxes from the Forms toolbar on that sheet.

The line that tells the program what to use for the linked cell is: Thanks Dave, and I agree with you about the clutter. I need to change the code so the cell links to itself creating a data set for a number of clients where I measure many things, have to total each column which is a different piece of data, eg: So … I have the data measure across the top and a new row for each client.

I need to add up each column. Please can you help??? You have already revolutionised my life … would love it if you can do it again! Liz, you guessed correctly! You are a goddess, and I am your humble worshipper. I want the check box to prompt the cause on a different worksheet too. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance! Link the check box to a cell, then put formulas in the other cells, and show a result based on TRUE or FALSE in the linked cell.

I then need that text to prompt on A66 on sheet 5. I used the formula you mentioned above to give me a true or false answer. Then I tried us another if formula at IF true would prompt for the on borrower text and if false would prompt for the multiple borrower text.

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Home About Products Policies Contact Videos Start Here. This will be a two part tutorial. Insert a Check Box To insert a check box, follow these steps: Click the Developer tab on the Ribbon.

In the Controls group, click the Insert command There are two types of check boxes — Form Control and ActiveX Control. On the worksheet, click near the top left corner of the cell where you want to add the check box — cell B4 in this example. The top left border of the check box frame should be inside cell B4. Click inside the check box frame, then select all the text, and delete it.

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Make the check box frame narrower, so it just fits the box. Press Ctrl, and click on the check box, if it is not already selected. If there are only a few check boxes, you can link them manually, by following these steps: Use Programming to Create Cell Links In an ideal world, you would be able to use a relative reference to a cell as the check box link.

Address End With Next chk End Sub Then, with the To Do list worksheet active, run the macro: In the list, click LinkCheckBoxes, and click Run.

Test the Check Boxes To test the check boxes, click on each one. If you clear a check box, the linked cell should show FALSE.

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