Comments on: Check boxes in Excel

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:46:41 +0000

Sorry. The second sentence should read “when a box is ticked the word to its right goes from being a light grey colour to a bright green colour.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:45:04 +0000

I am using an excel spreadsheet that has check boxes. When a box is checked the to its right goes from a light grey colour to a bright green colour. The “sumif” formula cells are hidden somewhere and I can’t find them.

I’ve added some boxes and need to keep the green wording consistent when I tick the box. Any ideas how this is done?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:06:23 +0000

You can use the fill handle (the square in the bottom right hand corner of the highlighted cell(s)) to easily populate new cells with updated formulas (ie if b1 has the formula 1+a1 in it and you use the fill handle to populate the following 2 rows (2 and 3) the formula in b2 will be 1+a2 and the formula in b3 will be 1+a3)

You can copy and paste check boxes but you will have to right click, go to form control, and change the cell that the TRUE/FALSE is connected to.

Hope this helps!

By: Excelbud

Excelbud — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:32:18 +0000

You can copy and paste the formula’s to speed things up. Unfortunately you can’t use the auto fill feature. It sucks, I know

By: QQ

QQ — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:03:58 +0000

i would like to ask about step 15, is there any quicker way to do that?

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:01:31 +0000

Nevermind I found it

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:55:25 +0000

I have Microsoft Excel 2007 and I am not able to find the developer tab. Is it located some place else?

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:51:14 +0000

useful tutorial. it is also correct to write the formula as =SUMIF(C3,TRUE,B3)

By: Dee Sledge

Dee Sledge — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:34:34 +0000

I tried this on my XP machine, EXCEL 2007 at work and the check boxes always stay “FALSE”. Even with the check mark, they continue to be “FALSE”. I sent the file to 2 people and it works just fine. I tried it on a coworkers machine at my work with the same result…does not change to “TRUE”, Any ideas? Dee Sledge