This will add the check mark or tick mark into the cell, but notice this is a ANSI character formatted as a check and not a checkmark character. Press the Insert button to add this into your worksheet.It will be highlighted in blue once selected. Scroll to the bottom of the listed icons and you will be able to choose from two different checkmark options.Select Wingdings in the Font dropdown list.This will open up the Symbol dialog box and a long list of symbols will be presented, but you will not find a checkmark in the hundreds of options presented in the default font. Select a cell in your workbook where you want to add a checkmark or tickmark then go to the Insert tab and press the Symbol command. The checkmark is hard to find and you might give up before you can locate it if you don’t know the trick. This seems like the obvious place to add a checkmark if there is one to be found in Excel. You can insert a checkmark from the Insert tab in the ribbon using the Symbol command.
