Copying a Check Box to other cells

I am doing a sheet where I need a check box in each of the 5000 rows. I would appreciate any help in doing it other than pasting a check box 4999 times. Thank you! lpong0413

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Riny_van_Eekelen

Platinum Contributor

LPONG0413

Notice SergeiBaklan 's comment! You still need to link each and every box to a cell 4999 times after copying it. The following macro could help out here. It creates 5000 checkboxes with a text label "YES", each linking to its own cell in column B. In this particular example the size of each box is 120 pixels wide by 30 pixels high. The first one will be put at coordinate (0, 0) i.e. top left corner of the sheet. Each following box will be placed 30 pixels below the previous one. If you set the row height to 30 for all rows, it'll work nicely. Of course, you may change the parameters to meet your own needs.

Sub Macro1()

Dim NextLoc, i As Integer
NextLoc = 0

For i = 1 To 5000

    ActiveSheet.CheckBoxes.Add(0, NextLoc, 120, 30).Select
    With Selection
        .Value = xlOff
        .Characters.Text = "YES"
        .LinkedCell = "$B$" & i
        .Display3DShading = False
    End With
    
    NextLoc = NextLoc + 30
    
Next i
    
End Sub

alexpantz67

Copper Contributor

Dec 06, 2023

Riny_van_Eekelen

Dear sir, for the uses of my questinnaire , I need a second collumn of checkboxes (the questionnaire has two possible answers : APPLY /DOES NOT APPLY. could you please add the second collumn to the macro ? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Riny_van_Eekelen
Platinum Contributor
Dec 06, 2023
alexpantz67 Sorry, but this is a very old post and since then the macro doesn't seem to work as intended on my system anymore. Furthermore, I've stopped using VBA and wouldn't know how to fix it.

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