Ticking checkboxes is one of many great features built into Microsoft Word. Here’s how to insert checkboxes in the program, and how to interact with them.

If Formatting marks or or non-printing characters are turned on in Word, it displays hidden characters such as Tab characters, Spaces, Paragraphs marks, Hidden text, Optional hyphens, etc.

Choose Wingdings from the Font dropdown. Browse down until you find the two alternate check marks shown in Figure C. Choose one, click OK to insert it, and then click OK to return to the document.

You can insert a checkbox in a Word document that can be checked off electronically, or with a pen after being printed.

In Microsoft Word, people can mark their document as final to not make changes to it. When the user marks the document as final, the document changes to read-only, and some of the ribbon buttons ...