
To use these checkmarks in Word or PowerPoint, if you have Flash installed (as a browser add- on), simply click the checkmark on the webpage to copy it to your Clipboard, and then paste it into your Word or PowerPoint document (here is an example of the resulting checkmark: ✔).

Scroll down near the bottom, and you will find a couple of nice, simple checkmark symbols as highlighted in the screenshot below. To get around this problem, you can visit and select All characters from the menu located in the top center portion of the webpage. Surprisingly, the Wingdings font set includes a spider, a snow skier, and even a motorcycle symbol, but no simple checkmark. Checkmarks encased in a check box are included in both the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 font sets. The Symbol font set includes a weird checkmark that resembles a partial square root symbol (√) more than a checkmark, and virtually the same dog - eared character can also be found in the Extended Characters-Plane 14 (√) and the Wide Latin font sets (√). If you scour Word's and PowerPoint's font sets, you will find a few feeble checkmark options available via the Insert, Symbol tool, as follows. Nonetheless, a simple checkmark symbol or character is not included in Word or PowerPoint. We also sometimes use double checkmarks to indicate data that have been rechecked and verified. As CPAs, we are accustomed to using checkmarks for many purposes, for example, to mark completed tasks. It has always bothered me that Microsoft Word and PowerPoint do not include a decent checkmark symbol among their thousands of characters and symbols. I can't seem to find the checkmark symbol in Microsoft Word.
