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    [Excel] Turning Cells into Checkboxes

    I'm having a big problem with Excel. Every month I send out spreadsheets to other departments of thousands of charges for approval. As they repeatedly mangle the spreadsheet before sending it back to me, I would like to send it password protected. I would like to add a column of checkboxes (one for each of the thousands of cells) that the department can click on to signify the individual line is approved. I cannot figure out how to do this, as the checkbox that Excel has offered up in the Developer tab is ungainly to use. Is there a way to turn an entire column into check boxes that can also be filtered for?

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    Re: [Excel] Turning Cells into Checkboxes

    Welcome to the forums mandy3gt

    Use Data Validation and change the Font of that Column to "Wingdings 2"

    Now if you type "P" in that column it will show as a Tick.

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    Thanks for your help. That's a solution that I considered, the only problem is if I give them an inch with the spreadsheet, they'll take a mile. Soon people would start typing entire epics into that space I leave unprotected if they determine that it's just a regular text box.

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    Re: [Excel] Turning Cells into Checkboxes

    In data validation, you can also restrict them from typing anything else

    Check the link in my signature on Data Validation

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    Re: [Excel] Turning Cells into Checkboxes

    You could simply have them place a 1 or 0 in the last column to signify its an approved row or not.
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