thanks Leith that worked great!

the reason i'm using a checkbox is i'm duplicating a form that has check boxes. It's a PDF format and I'm making an excel template so all fields can be filled out automatically including checkboxes.

The other problem I'm running into is making the checkbox bigger, I've seen another post by someone using bullets. He put an image of a bigger bullet on top of the actual bullet and was able to put info on a cell and have it checked the appropriate bullets. Do you know how to make it do that w/ the checkboxes? (I can't seem to find that post )