Checkboxes in Pages?

You could use the "Ballot box" character ☐

You'll find it in the Character Viewer, also labeled "Emoji and Symbols" in some versions of OS X ☐

It's Unicode character number U+2610 or UTF-8 number E2 98 90 ☐

Select it in the viewer, then double click to place it at the insertion point in your document. ☐

You can leave the viewer open, to do multiple insertions using the same method, or you can select and copy the first one inserted, then paste it into new locations. (you can also copy it from here and paste it into your document).

You may find it necessary to enlarge the ballot box to make it a closer match to the upper case letters in your font.

Regards,

Barry

Rach,

✓ is Unicode Character 2713.

You can use that character in your document. There are probably many other Checkmark characters, but I have saved this particular one in my favorites for just such an occasion.

Jerry

There are alrge number of special Unicode characters at:

Menu > Edit > Special Characters > Bullets/Stars and elsewhere

Click in the text where you want them and Double click on the one you want in Characters.

Peter

Do you want check boxes that you can check and uncheck like it is in AppleWork? Pages doesn't have it. Pages does have in the bullet list ready made checked and unchecked boxes though.

Fruhulda,

Great suggestion! I completely missed that approach.

Jerry

Do you want check boxes that you can check and uncheck like it is in AppleWork? Pages doesn't have it.

Ah! Another gaping hole in the Appleworks --> iWorks transition.

EVERYTIME I try to convert one of my Appleworks files to iWorks it fails. What a looser program. If Apple can't take all the features of Appleworks and put them in iWorks then they shouldn't be shoving me off the Rosetta cliff as they are doing with their push to iCloud!

'Nuf said!

No, not "'nuf said," you need to tell the Pages team via feedback in the Pages menu.

Ah! Another gaping hole in the Appleworks --> iWorks transition. EVERYTIME I try to convert one of my Appleworks files to iWorks it fails. What a looser program. If Apple can't take all the features of Appleworks...

I don't think Apple promised to duplicate every feature of AppleWorks in the iWork apps or that the transition would be simple and not require different ways of working.

If you can't convert any of your AppleWorks documents to useful Pages documents you should continue to use AppleWorks. For example, dowload a virtual machine like VMWare Fusion, install Mac OS X 10.6 and AppleWorks and continue using your AppleWorks documents.

I don't think Apple promised to duplicate every feature of AppleWorks in the iWork apps or that the transition would be simple and not require different ways of working.

I never said they promised they would. I just think a program from the same company meant to be a replacement in this day and age of larger memory and faster processors should not remove features.

If you can't convert any of your AppleWorks documents to useful Pages documents you should continue to use AppleWorks. For example, dowload a virtual machine like VMWare Fusion, install Mac OS X 10.6 and AppleWorks and continue using your AppleWorks documents.

I have tried this. It isn't supported by Apple or VMware. I've tried one non-supported method with no luck. I'd love to hear of a way to do this since it WOULD solve my problem. Even better if it came from Apple allowing us longtime customers to continue using our legacy programs while we transition to a Rosetta-less system. But right now I'd take it from anybody.

BTW, the other kick-in-the-head fact of this push to iCloud for us longtime Apple users is that Windows Vista users have an iCloud option provided by Apple. Snow Leopard users do not. REALLY?!!!!!

Randy - Yvan can. See this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3225878

RandyChev wrote:

Do you want check boxes that you can check and uncheck like it is in AppleWork? Pages doesn't have it.

Ah! Another gaping hole in the Appleworks --> iWorks transition.

Checkable checkboxes may be placed in a Numbers table.

Pages is a word processing and page layout application. I'd be interested in learning the method you used to insert a (checkable) checkbox into an AW word processing document.

Regards,

Barry

Actually, Barry, AppleWorks did offer a checkable checkbox as a bullet option for lists in word processing.

Jeff Shenk wrote: "Actually, Barry, AppleWorks did offer a checkable checkbox as a bullet option for lists in word processing."

Thanks for that Jeff. I opened AW and checked, and realized I had seen that before (many years ago). I rejected it at the time due to the size of the boxes relative to the text in the list, and promptly forgot about their availability.

After that I used the Checkbox field type in the AW database quite often (and still do with the one DB that keeps me using AppleWorks), but never again (until today) even looked at the checkboxes in the word processor module.

Regards,

Barry

How did you put that signature in there? Can you teach me, please...I want to do it in my emails.

My signature is an image file that I made a number of years ago using a font made from my handwriting. That font no longer functions in the newer versions of OS X. I think I did it in an AppleWorks draw docutment & added a shadow & exported it as an image. I probably saved it as a PICT & then made a transparent .gif file in GraphicConverter. Now I have it as a transparent .png.