While inserting check boxes in cells in Excel, you might notice that it is hard to arrange all checkboxes orderly as the left screenshot shown. Actually, you can move all check boxes to cell center to keep them in order neatly. Method in this article can help you.
To automatically center all checkboxes in cells in a current worksheet, please do as follows.
1. In the worksheet, you need to auto-center all checkboxes, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please click Insert > Module. Then copy and paste VBA code into the code window.
VBA code: Automatically center all checkboxes in cells
Sub CenterCheckbox ()
Dim xRg As Range
Dim chkBox As OLEObject
Dim chkFBox As CheckBox
On Error Resume Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each chkBox In ActiveSheet.OLEObjects
If TypeName(chkBox.Object) = "CheckBox" Then
Set xRg = chkBox.TopLeftCell
chkBox.Width = xRg.Width * 2 / 3
chkBox.Height = xRg.Height
chkBox.Left = xRg.Left + (xRg.Width - chkBox.Width) / 2
chkBox.Top = xRg.Top + (xRg.Height - chkBox.Height) / 2
End If
Next
For Each chkFBox In ActiveSheet.CheckBoxes
Set xRg = chkFBox.TopLeftCell
chkFBox.Width = xRg.Width * 2 / 3
chkFBox.Height = xRg.Height
chkFBox.Left = xRg.Left + (xRg.Width - chkFBox.Width) / 2
chkFBox.Top = xRg.Top + (xRg.Height - chkFBox.Height) / 2
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
3. Press the F5 key. Then all checkboxes are moved into the center of the cells immediately as below screenshot shown.
Note: This VBA code can be applied to both CheckBox (ActiveX Control) and CheckBox (Form Control).
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After some more experimenting, I figured out that the VBA does work for manually inserted checkboxes, but if I use Kutools batch insert, it does not. How do I center all the checkboxes inserted with Kutools?
I'm using office 360. I think the issue that I'm having is that when I use the Kutools batch insert, the size of the the checkbox object is as wide as the column that it's inserted into (i.e. the checkbox object width is greater than it's height), with the visible checkbox itself on being left justified within the object. If I select all the checkbox objects and then resize them so that the height and length are equal, and then run the VBA, it does then center the checkboxes within the column.
This seems like an unnecessary step, given that checkboxes are square, why is Kultools not making the checkbox objects square?
Hi quadma, The check boxes inserted by Kutools are the same as the Check Box (Form Control) which inserted by Excel. I don't really understand you said "making the checkbox object square". Normally a check box include the box field and the value field. Kutools keeps the check boxes' value empty if the selected cells are blank. And if there are values in selected cells, the cell value will be taken as the check box value.
This worked great for me except it doesn't align it with the text in the next cell which is bottom aligned. Is there a way to align the checkboxes for bottom aligned in order to get them to align with the text in the next cell? Thanks!
