Check Box

[BOOBALAN.V]

Dear Community,

How to select all check boxes in one go and can we change the check box symbol default from X symbol to tick mark symbol. I am using word2016. Thanks.

[macropod]

What kind of checkbox? In any event, whatever kind it is, you'll need a macro to loop through them and do the setting one each one individually.

[HansV]

To elaborate on Paul's reply: there are three types of check boxes:
- Content control check box
- Legacy form check box
- ActiveX check box

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[BOOBALAN.V]

Thanks for kind reply. Sir i am using content control check box sir. Actually i want to add the check box only. Because already i prepared content. I just want to add check box before the content and user going to check and uncheck. For that i need to customize the check box. But there are 100 check boxes. Do i want to customize each check box sir? Can we select and change the properties for all check boxes like we do in excel. I tried to use Go to function to select objects but it doesn't select the object. Now how to select that check boxes sir?

[macropod]

Simply create & format a single checkbox, then copy/paste that checkbox to your other locations...

[Jay Freedman]

To set the checked symbol for all content control checkboxes in the current document (or a template if it's opened as a document):

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Sub ChangeCheckedSymbol()
    Dim CC As ContentControl
    
    For Each CC In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
        If CC.Type = wdContentControlCheckBox Then
            CC.SetCheckedSymbol CharacterNumber:=9745, _
                Font:="Segoe UI Symbol"
        End If
    Next CC
End Sub

That uses a check mark in a box which is the same size as the default empty box.

If you need to make other changes to all controls, they can be included within the If ... End If structure.

[BOOBALAN.V]

Copy paste is a great and simple idea. Thanks Mr.Jay freedman for your VBA code. Thank you so much for all. Its working great.