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Excel can still use legacy “Move and Size with Cells” checkboxes — but can no longer create them
Thorough investigation. Best to use Help, Feedback, report a problem to report this as well.
Question: can you copy an "old" checkbox and make it work as before?
Personally, I never liked using check boxes (or the other form controls) as they are notoriously problematic (as you've found). And they are very unfriendly to the keyboard user.
When I copy an existing checkbox, the checkbox properties are preserved exactly as they are. In particular, the **Move and size with cells** setting remains unchanged on the copied checkbox.
So copying an older checkbox does not restore the previous behavior. The copied control inherits the same current property state, which suggests the issue is not with creating a new checkbox versus copying an old one, but with how Excel is currently handling that checkbox property.