How to Get a Checkbox Control Value in Word. Word, Microsoft's popular word processing program, offers you many features for editing text and adding images to your documents.

This post will show you how to change the tick of a check box from a checkmark to 'x' or any other symbol in Microsoft Word.

The problem is that when the Find And Replace dialog box is open, Word's menus and toolbars are unavailable, making it difficult to find and replace symbols in your document.