

In short: It gives you the power to make your stuff interactive. And a checkbox is a small but powerful tool that you can use to control a lot of things by unchecking/checking it. One of the most demanding and fascinating things for an Excel user is to create interactive things in Excel.

As we’ll see CountIf() can return the number of cells either checked or not. Sometimes you want a value (usually 1 for True or Zero for False) instead of the Boolean values. You can use the values TRUE or FALSE in formulas. Now you know how to insert checkboxes in Excel, here are some ways to use check box cells in Excel. Counting the checked/unchecked boxes, calculate percentage checked and even showing a separate list of items based on their checked status.
