Put a checkmark in the square in a Microsoft Office Word document

Questions that arise when working with the program Microsoft Office Word comes up a lot. Moreover, they all have the most diverse character. There are really complex questions that are very difficult for an experienced user to understand the first time. And there are simple ones that you just need to take apart once and remember. Today we will tell you how to check a box in a Microsoft Office Word document.

So, go to the document and in the section "Home" find the "Paragraph" block. In this block the very first paragraph will be "Markers". You need to 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". After this, a window will open with numerous options for various symbols.

Depending on the text style used in the document, there will be certain symbols. In order to quickly find the "tick in a square" symbol, you need to set the style Wingdings. In the list of symbols, select the 254th symbol. This will be the checkmark in the square. If this does not help and the necessary symbol is not there, then you can do it differently.

Let's go to the block "Insert" and click on section "Symbol". Select the item "Other characters".

Here we select the text style Wingdings. After this, all the symbols will change to match the selected style and the symbol number 254 will be exactly the desired “tick in the square”. All you have to do is simply paste it into the document.

Place a check mark in a square in a Microsoft Office Word document it can be done quite simply.