Remove CheckBox on Worksheet or UserForm in Excel

We can remove or delete checkbox on the worksheet or userform using ‘Go To Special’ or ‘Select Objects’ or by turning on Design Mode in Developer tab. when we don’t want to place checkbox control on the worksheet or userform we removes from there. Please find the more details and screenshots for clear understanding about remove checkbox control in the following chapter.

In this Topic:

• Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Go To Special
• Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Select Objects
• Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Design Mode
• Remove Checkbox Controls using VBA
• More about Checkbox control

Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Go To Special

Please find the below example code, it will show you how to remove a checkbox on the worksheet using Go To Special from Editing. Go To Special command is used to sleet many types of control, one of those is objects. Please follow the below instructions to remove checkbox.

1. Go To Home tab, click Find & Select (Editing). Now the following dialog box will be appeared. It is shown in the following screenshot.



2. Choose the Objects option from the Go To Select command. And then click OK button.
3. All of the check boxes have been selected. (If Worksheet contains any other objects, it will delete other objects als).
4. Press the Delete key to delete check boxes on the keyboard.
5. Once you click on the Delete button, all of the checkboxes will be deleted,

Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Select Objects

Please find the below example code, it will show you how to remove a checkbox on the worksheet using Select Objects from Editing.

1. Go To Home tab, click Find & Select (Editing), click Select Objects. It is shown in the following screenshot.



2. Now, select the checkbox objects which you wanted to delete.
3. Press the Delete key to delete check boxes on the keyboard.
4. Once you click on the Delete button, all of the checkboxes will be deleted,

Remove a CheckBox on the Worksheet: Using Design Mode

Please find the below example code, it will show you how to remove a checkbox on the worksheet using Design Mode from Controls.

1. Go To Developer tab, Click Design Mode(It Should be On). It is shown in the following screenshot.



2. Now, select the checkbox objects which you wanted to delete.
3. Press the Delete key to delete check boxes on the keyboard.
4. Once you click on the Delete button, all of the checkboxes will be deleted,

Remove Checkbox Controls using VBA

Here is the VBA code to remove all Checkbox controls (Worksheet Form Controls) in active sheet.

Sub sbRemoveCheckboxesinActiveSheet_FormControls()

For Each shp In ActiveSheet.Shapes
    If shp.Type = msoFormControl Then
        If shp.FormControlType = 1 Then shp.Delete
    End If
Next
    
End Sub

And below is the VBA Macro to remove all OLE Checkbox controls in active sheet.

Sub sbRemoveCheckboxesinActiveSheet_OLEControls()

For Each shp In ActiveSheet.Shapes
If shp.Type = msoOLEControlObject Then
        If shp.OLEFormat.Object.OLEType = 2 Then shp.Delete
    End If
Next    
End Sub

More about Checkbox control

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