How to Insert a Check Mark in Microsoft Excel

How to Insert a Check Mark in Microsoft Excel. Many times, symbols can be better visuals than letters or numbers. If you want to insert a check mark symbol into your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, it takes only a few clicks.

While you can certainly use interactive checkboxes for things like creating a checklist in Microsoft Excel, you don’t always need that extra step or added work. You can simply place a checkmark next to something like a completed task, fulfilled order, or confirmed data.

Here is How to Insert a Check Mark in Microsoft Excel

To insert a check mark symbol in Excel, simply press SHIFT + P and use the Wingdings 2 font. You can also insert a checkbox in Excel.

1.  Select cell A1 and press SHIFT + P to insert a capital P.
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, select the Wingdings 2 font. To insert a fancy check mark, change the font color to green, change the font size to 12 and apply bold formatting.
3. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, use the Align buttons to center the check mark horizontally and vertically. Result. A check mark in Excel.
4. To insert a fancy red X, press SHIFT + O to insert a capital O and change the font color to red.
5. Now you can create a nice to-do list that uses check marks. Use CTRL + c and CTRL + v to copy/paste a check mark or red X. Instead of executing step 1 and 2, you can also use the Insert tab to insert a check mark symbol. Here you can find other symbols as well
6. On the Insert tab, in the Symbols group, click Symbol.
7. Select Wingdings 2 from the drop-down list, select a check mark and click Insert.

Insert a check mark symbol

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You can easily insert a check mark (also known as a “tick mark”) in Word, Outlook, Excel, or PowerPoint.These marks are static symbols. If you’re looking for an interactive check box that you can click to check or uncheck, see: Add a check box or option button (Excel) or Make a checklist in Word.

1. In your file, place the cursor where you want to insert the symbol.
2. Open the Symbol dialog box:
   • Word or Outlook: Insert > Symbols > More Symbols
   • Excel: Insert > Symbols
   • PowerPoint: Insert > Symbols > Symbol

   The Symbols button  is on the far right end of the Insert toolbar tab.

3. In the Font box, select Wingdings.
4. In the Character code box at the bottom, enter: 252In the grid of symbols, the check mark  is selected. Another check-mark option  is available two squares away from it (character code 254).
5. Select the check mark you want. Click Insert. Then click Close to dismiss the dialog box.
6. Once the check mark has been inserted, you may change its size or color. Select the check mark, right-click it, and make your desired changes by using the floating toolbar:

More check marks to choose from

Another font, Segoe UI Symbol, has three checkmark options. You can opt for this font in step 3 of the procedure above, and you can substitute one of the following character codes in step 4.

Symbol	Character code
	2705
	2713
	2714