How to make check boxes on google docs

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Here is a step-by-step guide to add checkboxes in Google Docs to create interactive to-do lists.
Here are some steps to add a checkbox in Google Docs on a computer
Here are some steps to add a checkbox in Google Docs on mobile device

Create surveys or to-do lists inside of your Google Docs or Slides file with checklists. With this easy workaround, you’ll be able to insert a simple checklist into your document for others to fill out. Here’s how.

For this guide, we’ll be using Google Docs for the entirety of our examples. However, either method can be used for Google Slides as well.

Fire up your browser, head over to Google Docs or Slides, and open up a document.

Next, click the arrow beside the Bulleted List icon and choose the checkbox option from the list.

Type in some choices as you would any other bulleted list, pressing the Enter key after each one.

After you type out all the answers and want to mark it as your response, double-click the box to highlight it, right-click, and then select the checkmark from the list provided.

That’s it—the checkbox changes into a checkmark, indicating that option as your response. There’s no limit on the number of choices, so repeat this process as you need.

Google Docs or Slides aren’t, by design, meant to be used as a survey or form generation tool. This tip is intended to help you insert a very basic questionnaire into your existing document. If you want to create a beautiful and fully-functional form or survey, check out our beginner’s guide to Google Forms.

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Here is a step-by-step guide to add checkboxes in Google Docs to create interactive to-do lists.

By India Today Web Desk: In the modern world we live in, to-do lists are something that is making our lives easier. The checkbox helps the user to stay on track and complete the work on time.

Google docs have the feature where you can easily add checkboxes to any document, whether you're using Google Docs on a computer or mobile device. Let's have a look at how to do it.

Here are some steps to add a checkbox in Google Docs on a computer

Step 1: Open Google Docs in a web browser.
Step 2: Now, create a new document or open an existing one.
Step 3: Create the text that you want to add checkboxes to.
Step 4: In the toolbar, find the Bulleted list button.
Step 5: Now, click the dropdown menu.
Step 6: In the bulleted list of options, choose the hollow squares, which is usually the top-right selection.

Note, that anyone with this document can click a checkbox, add a checkmark and strike through the accompanying text.

Here are some steps to add a checkbox in Google Docs on mobile device

Step 1: Open the Google Docs app.
Step 2: Now, open the document you want to create the checkboxes in.
Step 3: Enter the text you want on the list and then select it.
Step 4: Tap the Bulleted list button in the toolbar above the keyboard.
Step 5: Now, in the toolbar, tap the Checkbox button, which displays two checkmarks in a list.

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Oct 1, 2021

Checklists are a convenient and effective way to stay on track and get things done.

For our students, checklists can be used in many ways:

Steps in a science experiment
Self-monitoring of behavior
Mastery of subject content and standards
Tasks when composing and editing their writing
Working through a math procedure
And many more…

Typically we think of such checklists as printed paper documents that our students can mark on with a pencil as they complete the steps in their list. While that is perfectly fine, we can also take advantage of digital checklists. When done electronically, checklists can be collaborative, edited as needed, accessed by multiple people, and hopefully not eaten by the dog.

There are certainly a lot of mobile apps, web apps, web extensions, and websites that provide checklist tools. However, one creative way to make an interactive checklist is with Google Documents. I have always known that you can add a checkbox list to a Google Doc, but did not realize a neat trick you can do to make the checklist more interactive. Recently I learned this clever approach from Caitlin Christel, an attendee at one of my Google certification boot camps.

See below for how to use Google Documents to create interactive checklists for students.

Create the Checklist

First, begin by creating the checklist in Google Docs using the “Bulleted list” feature.

Type out the items in the checklist, with one item per line.
Select all the lines of items.
Click the down arrow to the right of the “Bulleted list” icon in the top toolbar, and then choose the checkbox option from the pop-out menu.
Alternately you can click “Format” in the top menu bar, then “Lists”, then “Bulleted list”, and then finally choose the checkbox option.
This will place a checkbox at the start of each line in the list.

Mark off the Checklist

Now the student can mark off an items in the checklist as they complete them. This can be done by changing a checkbox to a checkmark at the start of any of the lines.

Left-click one time on a checkbox, which will select the entire group of checkboxes.
Now left-click one more time on the same checkbox, which will now just select the single checkbox you have clicked on.
Now right-click on the same checkbox.
This will pop up a window where you can choose a new bullet to replace the checkbox.
Choose the checkmark icon.
The empty checkbox will now be replaced with a checkbox, indicating the item has been completed.
Repeat as needed for other checkboxes.