Follow the steps below to change the tick of a check box from a checkmark to ‘x’ or any other symbol in Word: The tick in the check box is changed to an X symbol. We hope you understand how to ...

Microsoft Word provides Legacy Tools to help you create a form with check boxes and other symbols. The Developer tab includes the check box form field on the Legacy Tools drop-down list.

Put your cursor in the Find What: text box and press [Ctrl]V. Select an instance of the symbol with which you want to replace the current symbol and press [Ctrl]C.

A pop-up "Word Options" window opens. Click the "Display" button on the top-left side of the "Word Options" window. Click the box next to "Paragraph marks" to remove the check from the box.

In the Symbol dialog box, ensure the "Symbols" tab is selected. Select the font in the drop-down menu, and next to "Subset," choose "Latin-1 Supplement" or "Superscripts and Subscripts" depending ...

enter the actual symbols in the Find What: text box. If a symbol has a shortcut key combination assigned to it, you could enter the symbol’s shortcut key in the Find What: ...