Make sure you're in design mode.

View|Toolbars|Control toolbox toolbar
(xl2003 wording)

click on the design mode icon
rightclick on the checkbox and hit delete
click on the design mode icon to toggle back to normal.

close that toolbar.

lydia24 wrote:

I copied/pasted some text from the internet and now have a checkbox in my
spreadsheet that won't go away. A previous post says to right-click to bring
up a menu, but right-clicking has no effect. Help!

Many thanks.

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Dave Peterson