How to do a tick/check and a cross in Excel

Posted May 11th, 2015 in Applications

There are several fonts which let you easily type a tick/check or cross into a cell in Excel, or use in any other application; or you can use unicode.

Using fonts

Use the Marlett or Webdings fonts, and use "r" for a cross and "a" for a check or tick.

Using unicode

There are a few checkmarks and crosses that can be used with unicode too.

U+2714 is "heavy check mark"

U+2718 is "heavy ballot x"

This page at Wikipedia shows how to put unicode into a document: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input