How to Create a Check Box in Excel 2007. Using Excel to create business forms means including elements available on your Web-based and paper forms, including check boxes.

Learn how to control Excel worksheets with spin buttons, scrollbars, option buttons, and checkboxes.

Such buttons often run macros that you write using Visual Basic. When the button must appear in a dialog box, create it using Excel's Visual Basic for Applications window.

Although Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet out of the box, macros make it even more useful. You can create and record macros within the app.