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_hgr_excelhelp
Jan 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Format ALL checkboxes to link to adjacent cells w/o having to Format Control all individually?
There are 96 spreadsheets. Each spreadsheet has 60 checkboxes. I need to find all of the boxes that were checked and calculate various things from there. But first step's first, link each checkbox wi...
- Jan 16, 2020
My example sized the checkboxes at 30 pixels high, starting at (0,0) i.e. top left of the sheet, and with a row height of 30 as well. Play around a little with the parameters to make it match your requirements.
Riny_van_Eekelen
Jan 16, 2020Platinum Contributor
You ask how to automate the creation of checkboxes and linking cells to these checkboxes. The topic below includes a macro i created. It creates checkboxes (how many do you want?), names them and links each of them to a cell. Perhaps this gets you started. You need to scroll down a bit, though.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/copying-a-check-box-to-other-cells/m-p/1091496