What Is a Checkbox in Google Docs
The checkbox is a widget in the user interface that allows users to make a choice by selecting one or more options from a list. Usually, you’ll spot it as a compact square-shaped box adjacent to a label or text, serving as a visual cue to convey its function or significance.
- Ticked
- Not ticked
Upon a user’s interaction with the checkbox, clicking it implies the activation or selection of the linked option or feature. Conversely, unchecking the checkbox signifies the deactivation or deselection of that particular option or feature.
Checkbox Example in Google Docs
The checkbox is usually used along with one or more checkboxes. A bunch of checkboxes allows users to make one or more selections among them. Checkboxes are used in situations when the user has to make one or more selections from the given bunch of checkboxes. Checkboxes are mainly used in to-do list, recipes, groceries list, task completion list, reminders and more. For example, in the groceries list, checkbox helps user to tick the checkboxes once user adds them to their shopping cart from the supermarket. The ticked boxes means the ticked grocery has been purchased and added to their shopping cart. The unticked boxes in the grocery list displays themselves that they are not purchased yet by the user.
How To Add a Checkbox in Google Docs
Google Docs is an online free document editor provided by Google. It has many features that are available to create, edit, collaborate, and save the document. A document in Google Docs can be created by an empty document or by choosing any of the templates available in it. Using Google Docs, users can change font, font color, background color, font size, insert images, align images and text, insert symbols, insert drawings, format the paragraphs by styling, and many more. There are plenty of important features available in Google Docs that are highly helpful for users and collaborators. As Google Docs has many useful features in it, it also has an option to add a checkbox to the document. This helps users to tick off the boxes interactively. In the earlier versions of Google Docs, there is no interactive way to use the checkbox in Google Docs. Now in the latest version, we can use the checkbox interactively by selecting or not selecting the box many times.