{"id":4311,"date":"2025-12-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:21:37","slug":"digitip-79-tick-your-tasks-with-microsoft-excels-checkboxes-%e2%9c%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/2025\/12\/09\/digitip-79-tick-your-tasks-with-microsoft-excels-checkboxes-%e2%9c%85\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiTip 79 \u2013 Tick your Tasks with Microsoft Excel\u2019s Checkboxes\u00a0\u2705"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3186\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2025\/06\/digitips-banner_1750256831.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4253\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Excel can be a great way to plan, schedule and keep track of things such as budgets or project tasks. But did you know that you can insert checkboxes into your spreadsheet so that you can easily check off your work. To do this go to insert &gt; checkbox.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/files\/2025\/06\/Excel-Checkbox.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4312\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cceff2\">To follow our DigiTips,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subscribe to our Digital Skills Blog<\/a>. Or alternatively, you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/category\/digitips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bookmark this webpage<\/a>, where a new DigiTip will be added each week!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel can be a great way to plan, schedule and keep track of things such as budgets or project tasks. But did you know that you can insert checkboxes into your spreadsheet so that you can easily check off your work. To do this go to insert &gt; checkbox.&nbsp; To follow our DigiTips,&nbsp;subscribe to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,394,402],"tags":[215,464,194,329,468],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitips","category-microsoft-excel-en","category-microsoft-support","tag-tipiaudigipa-digitipsau-en","tag-applications","tag-excel","tag-office365-en","tag-productivity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/digital-capabilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}