The checkmark symbol is not present on the keyboard, but with the help of special combinations it can be easily added to your message, post or text document.

Let's take a closer look at how this can be done.

Checkbox types + usage

A checkmark icon (bird, jackdaw) is a special icon that is often used to describe confirmation of something.

It can be found in the design of enumerations or underlines of thought. After reading the following instructions, you can find and use the symbol yourself.

The easiest option is to copy the object from this article. There are several types of icons:

If you need a daw to use in one sentence or phrase, just copy the element you like by selecting it and using the CTRL and C keyboard shortcuts.

To type a bird on the keyboard yourself, you must use the Unicode encoding. Type the letter U and +. Then you need to dial the icon code.

Numerical designations for different types of checkmarks are as follows: 2713 (regular sign), 2714 (bold), 2705 (highlighted in the box), 2611 (normal in the box).

If the combination U +2713 or another does not automatically turn into a checkmark, most likely, the document is not configured to automatically recognize Unicode characters or you are entering the code incorrectly.

The text will immediately be transformed into the desired sign, so you can safely type it in messages and different posts.

Icon in MS Word

Anyone who has ever used it knows that placing special characters helps to structure the document and make it easy to read.

You may need the checkmark icon in the process of drawing up a list of tasks, listing.

Inexperienced users display the sign by adding an image with the desired element to the document. This approach is wrong because it increases the final file size.

Everything can be done much easier. To check the box in Word, follow the next few steps.

• Open the document in any version of the program. Depending on the year of release of the software, the location of the required tabs may differ;
• Click on the "Insert" section;
• On the right side of the toolbar, find the "Symbol" item and click on it;
• In the Dropdown window, click on "Other symbols".

• In the pop-up window, you can find the check mark using one of two methods. Select the "Dingbats" set and in the proposed list, click on the desired element or in the lower part of the window enter the element code in Unicode (hexadecimal). For example, 2714. Word will automatically find the object you need. Click on it and confirm the action by clicking on "OK".

Fig. 3 - special characters in Word

After adding a check mark to the body of the document, you can apply any formatting to it: change the color, font, title type, and other options.

There are a lot of questions that arise when working with Word. Moreover, they all have the most diverse character. There are some really tricky questions that a power user might have a hard time understanding the first time around. And there are simple ones, which are enough to disassemble and remember once. Today we will show you how to check a box in a Microsoft Office Word document.

So, go to the document and in the " home"we find the" Paragraph "block. In this block, the very first item will be" Markers". And you must click on it.

In the same place, click on the item " Define a new marker". Another window will open in which you need to click on the item" Symbol". This will open a window with numerous options for various symbols.

Depending on the style of text used in the document, there will be certain characters. In order to quickly find the "tick in the box" symbol, you need to put the style Wingdings... In the list of symbols, select the 254 by count symbol. This will be the check mark in the box. If this does not help and the necessary symbol is not there, then you can act differently.

We go into the block " Insert"and click on the section" Symbol". Select the item" Other symbols".

Here we select the text style Wingdings... After that, all the symbols will change for the selected style and the symbol number 254 will be just the required "tick in the box". All you have to do is just paste it into your document.

MS Word contains a large number of symbols: temperature designations, various mathematical symbols. But when drawing up, for example, a questionnaire for conducting a survey, the first difficulty already appears - this is a check mark in the Word, because it is not as easy to type on the keyboard as a square bracket. In this article, we will analyze two fairly simple ways to solve this problem.

Method 1: checkmark icon using the Symbol tab

This option for inserting a symbol is known to many users, since it does not have to spend a lot of time. So, to insert a check mark in the questionnaire, you need:

Attention! Next to the check mark, there is also a check mark in a box, an ordinary cross and a cross in a box, by clicking on the desired sign, you can insert it into the text.

This is how the check mark in the box will look like (the code of the mark in the Word document is 254).

Method 2: insert a checkmark through the "Home" tab

In the main tab, specify the font "Wingdings-2".

Change the layout of the text input to the English keyboard, using the "Shift + Alt" key combination. Next, you need to hold down the "Shift" button and click on the letter "P" on the English layout.

This method allows you to put only a bird in the text, without a square. You can also create a list of enumerations, or use it in a chaotic manner throughout the text document.

The checkmark symbol is usually placed in a Word document for greater clarity, so that the document looks professional. For example, you decided to make a to-do list in Word, and immediately mark the items that you have already completed. In this guide, you will learn how in several ways to learn how to insert a checkmark (in a square and without) in Word.

How to put a check mark in the Word in a box using the "Symbols"

We will perform this process in three steps.

Step 1. Go to the "Insert" tab - then "Symbol" - "Other symbols ..."

Step 2. In the window that appears, set the font "Wingdings 2" and find in all this variety of symbols the icons we need: a check mark or a check mark in a square.

Step 3. I hope your cursor is in the right place in the document. Press the "Insert" button and the sign you need will appear in the document.

How to make a check mark in Word using hotkeys

Step 1. Let's go back to the "Symbols" window, where you must have the "Wingdings 2" font selected, otherwise how do you insert a check mark in the Word?

Step 2. Find the icon you need and this time turn your attention to the "Sign Code". For example, for a check mark, this code is 80.

See that the characters you need are located under the code from 79 to 88

Step 3. Close the "Symbols" window, place the cursor in the desired place in the Word document. Now hold down and hold the Alt key on the numeric keypad and type the character code (for example, Alt + 80). After you release the Alt key, you will have a character, the code of which you would have typed.

As you can see, ticking the checkboxes in Word is not at all difficult.

If in a Microsoft Word document with which you are working, you need to put a tick in the text, or make a list in which each new item will begin with it, and you have a question: "How to do this?", Then in this article, let's figure it out ...

I'll tell you where to look for the Checkmark symbol in the Word, and how to put it in the box in the document. The latter is quite often used if you answer the questions in the questionnaire in Word. Well, if you often have to use it, then you can assign a combination of hot keys.

Inserting a check mark through Symbols

Let's take this example: there is a questionnaire in which you need to indicate that you need to mark the answers with certain symbols. One of them will be a bird.

Place the cursor where you want to place it. Then go to the "Insert" tab and in the "Symbols" group click on a similar button. In the menu that opens, select "Other symbols".

This window will open. In the Font field, select Wingdings. Scroll down a little and there you will see a bird. Click on it and click the "Insert" button. Click Cancel to close this window.

After that, the selected symbol will appear on the sheet.

In order to be able to insert it into the squares, you just need to select the appropriate symbol from the list.

Checking the box using hotkeys

If in the document you need to put a check mark in the table or in the text more than once, then it will be convenient not to go to the desired tab each time and select it, but to assign a certain key combination for insertion.

In the "Symbol" window, in the "Symbol code" field, a specific code is indicated for each. If you press "Alt" while typing and type numbers, what you need will appear on the page.

For example, I select a bird, for it the code is "252". I put italics in the text of the document, press "Alt" and "252" on the numeric keypad. After that, it should be inserted, but this did not happen for me, something else was added.

If you also did not succeed, you can independently define a key combination for it. To do this, click "Keyboard shortcut".

In the next window, make sure that the checkbox is selected. Then put your cursor in the box "New keyboard shortcut" and press the keys you want to use on the keyboard.

Please note that they do not need to be typed in this field, but rather clicked.

I chose Alt + P. In field "Present value" should be "[no]" - this means that the selected combination is not used anywhere. If there is a different command listed, try another keyboard shortcut. When you are done, click "Assign".

After that, the window should indicate that to insert the birdie into the document, you need to press "Alt + P". Close the window by clicking on the corresponding button.

After that, in all documents, not only in the current one, you will need to press "ALT + P" on the keyboard, you could choose another combination to insert the desired character on the page.

Check the boxes using Lists

In order to make a list in the Word, in which each new item will begin with a bird, you need to make it marked, and select the desired icon as a marker. There is a separate article about this on the site, you can read it by clicking on the link.

It is created like this: put the cursor in the place where the beginning will be, then on the "Home" tab, click on the black arrow next to the "Markers" button. Select the one you want from the menu that opens.

Type the first item, press "Enter" and go to the second. Each new item will start with a check mark.

If for the list it is necessary that the given symbol is not one, but in a square, then press "Define a new marker".

In the next window, click on the "Symbol" button.

Here we do everything in the same way as I described above. Select the Wingdings font, find the sign in the window and click OK.

In the "Sample" field you can see how the list will look like. Click "OK" in this window.

Print the first paragraph and all subsequent ones, each on a new line - they will begin with a check mark in the box.

Adding a check mark to a questionnaire

If you need to fill out a questionnaire in a Word document, then the question arises: how to mark the appropriate option? Everything is simple here, we do not need to insert a check mark, but simply replace the empty square in the required response field with the square in which the bird will stand.

First you need to determine how the list with answer options was created: automatically or manually. To do this, enable non-printable characters. On the Home tab, click Show all signs.

Now in the question, click on the box that corresponds to the desired answer. If it is highlighted, as in the example, then the list is automatic. Accordingly, you need to click on the "Markers" button on the "Home" tab to remove it.

The square will disappear in the selected option. Now place the cursor at the beginning of the line with the answer option. Then go to the "Insert" tab, in the "Symbols" group, click on the required button. The drop-down menu will open the last used ones. If there is a desired icon, click on it, no - select "Other symbols"... To find what you need and insert it into the document, read at the beginning of the article.

Now we have replaced the empty square with a filled one. You can put a couple of spaces between the square and the text to separate them from each other.

If in the questionnaire you click on a square, but it is not highlighted, and the cursor is placed to the right or to the left of it, then the numbering is set manually. Remove the box accordingly.